(1) Except as otherwise required by the Act or these Regulations -
(a) any application, request or notice which is required or permitted to be made or given to the Registrar;
(b) all other communications between an applicant or a person making such request or giving such a notice and the Registrar; and
(c) all other communications between the registered proprietor or the registered user of a trade mark and the Registrar or any other person,
may be signed, made or given by or through an agent and the Registrar may -
(aa) in any particular case, require the personal signature or presence of the applicant, opponent, registered proprietor, registered user or other person;
(bb) by notice in writing sent to an agent, require him to produce evidence of his authority.
(2) Where a party to proceedings before the Registrar appoints an agent for the first time or appoints one agent in substitution for another, the agent appointed shall file Form TM 1 with the Registrar on or before the first occasion on which he acts as an agent for that party in the proceedings.
(3) No person may appoint more than one agent to act for him concurrently in respect of the same mark, whether in respect of the same or different transactions; and where more than one agent is on record, the Registrar shall recognise only the latest agent duly appointed.
(4) The Registrar shall decline to recognise as an agent any person who is not currently on the Register of Trade Marks Agents of Malaysia compiled and maintained under regulation 12.
