Patents [No. 40 of 2016 (3) Where an applicant for the grant of a patent fails to make a request, referred to in subsection (1), or the Registrar does not, on the Registrar’s own motion, conduct or cause to be conducted an examination, as provided in subsection (2), the Registrar shall treat the application as withdrawn. (4) The Registrar may, where the Registrar considers it necessary, refer an application for the grant of a patent, examined in accordance with subsection (1), to any other International Examination Authority, for a patentability search. (5) The International Examination Authority, referred to in subsection (4), shall be required to make and submit to the Registrar a report on its findings. (6) Where the Registrar decides to refer an application for the grant of a patent for an international examination, as specified in subsection (4), the Registrar shall notify the applicant, in the prescribed manner, and request the applicant to pay a prescribed fee within a prescribed period. (7) Where the applicant fails to pay the prescribed fee as provided in subsection (6), the Registrar shall consider the application for the grant of a patent to have been withdrawn. (8) Where, on considering the report referred to in subsection (5), the Registrar is of the opinion that the application does not meet the requirements provided in section fifteen, the Registrar shall notify the applicant, in a prescribed manner, and request the applicant to make the necessary amendments to the application, to the satisfaction of the Registrar, within a prescribed period. (9) If the applicant fails to make the necessary amendments, referred to in subsection (8), within a prescribed period, the Registrar shall consider the application as abandoned. (10) A person aggrieved with the decision of the Registrar, made in accordance with this section, may, within three months of receiving the decision, appeal to the High Court. (11) Subject to section fifty, where the Registrar is of the opinion that the application, and the invention to which it relates, meets the requirements of this Act, the Registrar shall issue or cause to be issued an acceptance of the application for the grant of the patent, in a prescribed manner. 54. Subject to this Act, the Registrar shall publish the acceptance of an application for the grant of a patent in the Industrial Property Journal, as soon as practicable upon payment of the prescribed fee. 825 Publication of acceptance