PART VIII—MISCELLANEOUS. 80. Extension of time. If in any particular case the registrar is satisfied that the circumstances justify an extension of the time for doing any act or taking any proceeding under these Regulations, not being a time expressly provided in the Act or prescribed by regulation 59(4) or 63(5), the registrar may extend the time upon such notice to other parties, and proceedings on it, and upon such terms as he or she may direct, and the extension may be granted though the time has expired for doing the act or taking the proceedings. 81. Exercise of discretionary power by the registrar: hearing. (1) Before exercising adversely to any person any discretionary power given to the registrar by the Act or these Regulations, the registrar shall, if so required, hear the person. (2) An application for a hearing shall be made within one month from the date of notification by the registrar of any objection to an application or the date of any other indication that the registrar proposes to exercise a discretionary power. (3) Upon receiving the application made under sub regulation (2) the registrar shall give the person applying fourteen days’ notice of a time when he or she may be heard. (4) Within seven days from the date when the notice would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, the person applying shall notify the registrar whether or not he or she intends to be heard on the matter. (5) The decision of the registrar in the exercise of a discretionary power under this regulation shall be notified to the person affected. 82. Exercise of discretionary power by the registrar: dispensing with evidence. Where under these Regulations a person is required to do any act or thing, or to sign any document, or to make any declaration on behalf of himself, herself or a body corporate, or any document or evidence is required to be produced to or left with the registrar, or at the office, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the registrar that from any reasonable cause that person is 2024