IPlNlllKENff11 Page 60 [Subsidiary] Opposition 10 Registration Opposition. 46. Any person may, within sixty days from the date of any advertisement in the Gazette of an application for registration of a trade mark, give notice in form Tl\1 6 to the Registrar of opposition to the registration. Notice of opposition. 47. (1) The notice shall include a statement of the grounds upon which the opponent objects to the registration. (2) I f registration' is opposed on the ground that the mark resembles marks already on the register, the numbers of those trade marks and the numbers of the Gazettes in which they have been advertised shall be set out. (3) The notice shall be accompanied by a duplicate, which the Registrar shall forthwith send to the applicant. Counter­ statement. 48. Within forty-two days from .the receipt of the duplicate the applicant shall send to the Registrar a counter-statement in form T~1 7 setting out the grounds on which he relies as supporting his application. (2) The' applicant shall also set out what facts, if any, alleged in the notice of opposition he admits. (3) The counter-statement shall be accompanied by a duplicate. Evidence in support opposition. of 49. Upon receipt of .the counter-statement and duplicate the Registrar shall forthwith send the duplicate to the opponent, and within forty-two days from the receipt of the duplicate tbe opponent shall leave with the Registrar such evidence by way of statutory declaration as he may desire to adduce in support of his opposition and shall deliver to the applicant copies thereof. Evidence in support of 50. If an opponent lea ves no evidence, be shall, unless the Regis­ trar otherwise directs, be deemed to have abandoned his opposition, but, if he does leave evidence, then, within forty-two days from the receipt of the copies of declarations, the applicant shall leave with the Registrar such evidence by way of statutory declaration as he desires to adduce in support of his application, and shall deliver to the opponent copies thereof. application. Evidence in reply by opponenL 5 I. \Yitbin one month from the receipt by the opponent of the copies' of the applican t's declarations the opponen t may leave with the Registrar evidence by statutory declaration in reply, and shall deliver to the applicant copies thereof; this evidence shall be confined to matters strictly in reply. Further 52. No further evidence shall be left on either side, but, in any proceedings before the Registrar, he may at any time give lea ve to either the applicant or the opponent to leave any evidence upon such terms ~IS to costs or otherwise as he may think fit. evidence. Abandonment of application or opposition. 52A. If the applicant or opponent fails to furnish the required coun ter-st.i tcmcn t or evidence in support within the times prescribed by rules 4t> to 52: the application or opposition. as the case may be, shall be deemed to be abandoned and the Registrar may proceed to make an a ward of costs. 14 of 86