IP/N/l/SWZ/T/l Page 7 Power to Award Costs. 11. In all proceedings before the Registrar under this Act, the Registrar shall have the power to award to any party such costs as he may consider reasonable and to direct how arid by which parties they ate to be paid, and any such award may be enforced in the same manner as a judgement or order of the HIgh Court. Fees. 12. Where under this Act or the Regulations ­ (a) a fee is payable in respect of the performance of any act by the Registrar. the Registrar shall not perform that act until the fee has been paid; or (b) a fee is payable in respect of the doing of any act by any person other than the Registrar, the act shall be deemed not to have been done until the fee has been paid; or (c) a fee is payable in respect of the lodging of a document, .the document shall be deemed not to have been lodged until the fee has been paid. Publication in the Gazet teo 13. A nything required to be published under this Act or the Regulations shall be published in the Gazette. Regulations. 14. (1) The Minister may make Regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing anything which under this Act .is to be prescribed and generally for the better carrying out of the objects and purposes of this Act or to give force or effect to its provisions or for its better administration. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of .subsection (1), Regulations made by the Minister rn.ay provide for ­ (a) regulating the practice under this Act, including the service of documents: (b) making or requiring copies of trade marks and other documents; (c) regulating the publishing and selling or distributing of copies of trade marks and other documents; (d) the fees which shall be payable in respect of any application, registration or any other matter under this Act. PART III ACQUISITION OF THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT T·O l\. TRADE 1'v1.A.RK Acquisition of the Exclusive Right. 15. (1) The exclusive right to the use of a trade mark, as defined in section 29, shall be acquired by registration in accordance with this Act. (2) Registration of a trade mark shall only be granted to a person \VDO has fulfilled the conditions .for registration. Classification of Registration. 16. Trade Marks shallbe registered in respect of particular goods or services in one or more classes of the International Classification and any question arising as to the class within which any goods or services fall shall be determined by the Registrar.iwhcse decision shall be final and shall not be questioned in any Court.

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