LAWS OF MALAWI Trade marks Trade Marks Regulations Cap. 49:01 (Subsidiary) 8. When a proposal for the conversion of a specification in accordance with regulation 6 has been advertised and has not been opposed and the time for notice of opposition has expired, or having been opposed the opposition has been determined and a conversion allowed, the Registrar shall make all the entries in the register necessary to give effect to the conversion in accordance with the proposal as advertised, or the proposal as amended after opposition or appeal thereon and published subsequently in the Gazette, and shall enter in the register the date when such entries were made. The expression “the expiration of the last registration” shall have regard to the same date in the case of all the resulting entries for the purpose of determining the next renewal thereof in accordance with section 25 of the Act as it had with regard to the registration before conversion. 9. Subject to any other directions that may be given by the Registrar, all applications, notices, statements, papers having representations affixed, or other documents authorized or required by the Act or these Regulations to be made, left or sent, at or to the Office, shall unless the Registrar otherwise directs, be written, typewritten, lithographed or printed in the English language upon strong paper, in dark, indelible ink, on one side only, of a size approximately 13 inches by 8 inches, and shall have on the left hand part thereof a margin of not less than 1½ inches. 10. A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a partnership shall contain the names of all the partners in full and shall be signed by all the partners or by any qualified partner stating that he signs on behalf of the partnership, or by any other person who satisfies the Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document. A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a body corporate shall be signed by a director or by the secretary or other principal officer of the body corporate, or by any other person who satisfies the Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document. A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of an association of persons may be signed by any person who appears to the Registrar to be duly qualified. 11. All applications, notices, statements, papers having representations affixed, or other documents authorized or required by the Act or these Regulations to be made, left or sent, at or to the Office or with or to any other person may be sent through the post by a prepaid letter; any application or any document so sent shall be deemed to have been made, left or sent at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post. In proving such sending, it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter was properly addressed and put into the post. 12. (1) Where any person is by the Act or these Regulations bound to furnish the Registrar with an address, the address given shall in all cases be as full as possible for the purpose of enabling any person easily to find the place of trade or business of the person whose address is given. Conversion specifications; resulting registrations. of Size etc., documents. of Signature documents partnerships, companies associations. of by Service documents. Address. and of