32 CAP. 400] Patents (b) in the case of an application under paragraph (b) of sub­ section (I), at any time before the date of expiration of the patent or within two years after the date on which hostili­ ties ceased, whichever is the later date. (3) Any person may within the prescribed time give written notice to the Registrar and the applicant of objection to any such extension, and the Registrar shall fix a date for the hearing of the application and shall advise the applicant and any objector of the date so fixed. (4) The Registrar may, after hearing the applicant and any person who may have objected to the extension, refuse the application or order the extension of the term of the patent in question for such period and subject to such conditions as it may deem fit or, if the patent has already lapsed, order the issue of a new patent for such a period and subject to such conditions: Provided that no such extension shall be granted­ (i) on the grounds mentioned in paragraph (a) of sub­ section (1) for a term exceeding five years or, in what the Registrar may deem to be exceptional cir­ cumstances, ten years; or (ii) on the grounds mentioned in paragraph (b) of suo­ section (I), for a term exceeding the period of hos­ tilities. (5) The provisions of section thirty-four shall mutatis mutandis apply in respect of any extension of the term of a patent granted as a result of an application under paragraph (b) of subsection (1): Provided that in the application of those provisions the reference in that section to a period of three months from the date on which any renewal fee referred to therein was due shall be construed as a refer­ ence to the date on which any patent whereof the term is extended under this section lapsed by effluxion of time. (6) An extension of the term of a patent under this section shall be endorsed on the relevant patent by the Registrar and recorded in the register. Cap. 388 (7) Except where the Registrar otherwise decides, an application based on the grounds specified in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) shall not be considered if the patentee or exclusive licensee is a sub­ ject of such foreign state as is referred to in that paragraph or is a company the business whereof is managed or controlled by such sub­ jects or is carried on wholly or mainly for the benefit or on behalf of such subjects, notwithstanding that the company may be registered in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act.