IP/N/l/NGA/T/2 Page 9 Advertisement of proposal and opposition. 7. (1) The advertisement of a proposal for amendment under section 42(3) of the Act shall be made in the Journal, and notice of any opposition shall be given on Form 43 within one month from the date of the advertisement, and shall be accompanied by an unstamped duplicate of the notice and by a statement in duplicate showing how the proposed conversion would be contrary to section 42(2) of the Act. (2) The Registrar shall forthwith send the duplicate copies to the registered proprietor who may within one month from the receipt of such duplicates, send to the Registrar a counterstatement setting out fully the grounds on which the opposition is contested and ifhe does so he shall deliver to the opponent a copy thereof; and the Registrar may thereupon require or admit evidence directed to the question in issue, and if so desired by either party he shall, before deciding the matter, give the parties an opportunity of being heard thereon. Conversion of spccifications and resulting registrations. 8. When a proposal for the conversion of a specification in accordance with regulation 6 of these Regulations 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 Journal, and shall enter in the register the date when such entries were made; and 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 23 of the Act as it had with regard to the registration before conversion. Documents 9. Subject to any other directions that may be given by the Registrar, all applications, notices, statements, papers having representation affixed, or other documents authorised or required by the Act or these Regulations to be made, left with or sent to the Registrar shall be upon foolscap paper and, except in the case of statutory declarations and affidavits, on one side only, of a size of approximately thirteen inches by eight inches and shall have on the left hand part thereof a margin of not less than one inch and a half. Size, etc. of documents.