Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00455:section:228:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00455
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 228 (pt 3/4)
Character Range: 279837–282693

made under the regulations; and
 (n) making provision for and in relation to the practice and procedure of prescribed courts in proceedings under this Act, including provision prescribing the time within which any proceeding may be started or anything else may be done, and providing for the extension of any such time; and
 (p) requiring persons to make statutory declarations in relation to patent applications or patents or in proceedings under this Act (not being court proceedings); and
 (q) making provision for and in relation to the making of a declaration, or the doing of an act, under this Act on behalf of a person who, because of infancy or physical or mental disability, is unable to make the declaration or do the act; and
 (r) for the control of the professional conduct of registered patent attorneys and the practice of the profession and, for that purpose, making provision for and in relation to all or any of the following:
 (i) making complaints, and hearing charges, against registered patent attorneys about their professional conduct;
 (ia) assessing the professional conduct of registered patent attorneys by reference to standards of practice established by the Board from time to time;
 (ii) imposing penalties on registered patent attorneys, including issuing a reprimand and suspending or cancelling registration;
 (iii) summoning witnesses;
 (iv) requiring persons to give evidence on oath (whether orally or otherwise);
 (v) administering oaths to persons giving evidence (whether orally or otherwise);
 (vi) requiring persons to produce documents or articles; and
 (s) making provision for and in relation to:
 (i) the deposit for the purposes of this Act, the Budapest Treaty, or both, of micro‑organisms with prescribed depositary institutions and the storage and testing of, and furnishing of samples of, micro‑organisms by those institutions; and
 (ii) the charging of fees by prescribed depositary institutions situated in Australia in relation to the matters described in subparagraph (i); and
 (iii) the making of reports by prescribed depositary institutions situated in Australia in relation to those matters; and
 (iv) the powers and functions of the Commissioner in relation to prescribed depositary institutions with respect to those matters; and
 (t) modifying the operation of this Act in relation to PCT applications that are treated as patent applications under this Act by excluding, varying, or substituting different provisions for, specified provisions of this Act; and
 (w) making provision for and in relation to the refund, in specified circumstances, of the whole or part of a fee paid in respect of the filing of a document; and
 (y) making provision for and in relation to the remission of, or the exemption of specified classes of persons from the payment of, the whole or part of a fee; and
 (z)