Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TRADE MARKS ACT 1995 No. 119 of 1995 - SECT 223

223. (1) The regulations may prescribe the fees to be paid for the purposes of
this Act and may prescribe different fees in respect of the doing of an act
according to the time when the act is done.

(2) Prescribed fees are payable in accordance with the regulations.

(3) If a fee is payable in respect of the doing of an act by the Registrar,
the Commission or the Comptroller, the Registrar, Commission or Comptroller
must not do the act until the fee has been paid.

(4) Subject to subsection (5), if:

   (a)  a fee is payable in respect of the doing of an act by a person other
        than the Registrar, the Commission or the Comptroller; or

   (b)  a fee is payable in respect of the filing of a document; the act is
        taken to have been done, or the document is taken to have been filed,
        in spite of the failure to pay the fee. Note: For file see section 6.

(5) If the Registrar, the Commission or the Comptroller notifies the person
concerned or his or her agent, in accordance with the regulations, that the
fee has not been paid, the act is not taken to have been done, or the document
is not taken to have been filed, before the day on which the fee is paid.