66.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may make such rules, prescribe such forms, and generally do such things as he may consider expedient —
(a)
for regulating the practice (other than that relating to proceedings before the court or connected therewith) under this Act including the service of documents;
(b)
for classifying goods or services for the purposes of registration of trade marks;
(c)
for making or requiring duplicates of trade marks and other documents;
(d)
for securing and regulating the publishing and selling or distributing in such manner as the Minister may think fit, of copies of trade marks and other documents;
(e)
generally, for regulating the business of the office in relation to trade marks and all things by this Act placed under the direction or control of the Registrar;
(f)
generally, for adjusting any matter or practice which may be prescribed or governed by rules made under this section so that the period between 15th February 1942 and 1st October 1947 may be excluded or equitably accounted for, and any such adjustments may be made with retrospective effect.
(1A) Rules made under subsection (1) may specify the hour at which the Registry shall be deemed to be closed on any day for the purposes of the transaction by the public of business under this Act or any rules made thereunder or of any class of such business, and may specify days as excluded days for any such purposes.
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(1B) Any business done under this Act or any rules made thereunder on any day after the hour so specified in relation to business of that class, or on a day which is an excluded day in relation to business of that class, shall be deemed to have been done on the next following day not being an excluded day; and where the time for doing anything under this Act or any rules made thereunder expires on an excluded day, that time shall be extended to the next following day not being an excluded day.
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(2) All rules made under this section shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette and if a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice whereof has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of Parliament next after the expiry of 3 months from the date when the rules are so presented annulling the rules or any part thereof as from a specified date, the rules or such part thereof, as the case may be, shall thereupon become void as from that date but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new rules.
(3) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Rules Committee constituted under section 80 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act [Cap. 322] may make Rules of Court regulating the practice and procedure in relation to proceedings before the court or connected therewith, and the costs of such proceedings.