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the goods and/or services to which each priority date relates.
 (4) The applicant must inform the Registrar of the number allocated to each earlier application in the trade marks office, or its equivalent, of the Convention country in which each earlier application was filed.

4.7  Publication of particulars of application
 (1) For the purposes of section 30 of the Act (which deals with publishing particulars of applications), the Registrar must publish the following particulars of the application:
 (a) if a number has been allocated to the application in the Trade Marks Office—the number;
 (b) the applicant's name;
 (c) the date of filing the application;
 (d) if the application is a divisional application—particulars of the parent application;
 (e) particulars of any claim for a right of priority for the application;
 (f) the class number or numbers for the goods and/or services in respect of which registration of the trade mark is sought.
 (2) The particulars must be published in a computer database maintained by the Trade Marks Office.
 (3) If, before 1 January 2001, an application by:
 (a) the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games constituted by the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Act 1993 of New South Wales; or
 (b) Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee Limited incorporated under the law of New South Wales;
is accompanied by a written request by the applicant to postpone publication of the particulars of the application, the Registrar must publish the particulars of the application as soon as practicable after the expiration of 3 months after the date on which the application was filed.

4.8  Examination of application—report to applicant
 (1) For the purposes of section 31 of the Act (which deals with examination and reporting), if in the course of an examination of an application the Registrar reasonably believes that:
 (a) the application has not been made in accordance with the Act or these regulations; or
 (b) there are grounds under Division 2 of Part 4 of the Act for rejecting it;
the Registrar must report that belief by notification to the applicant.
 (2) A report under subregulation (1) must include notification of the date on which the application will lapse if it is not accepted earlier.
 (3) If the Registrar reasonably suspects that the provisions of paragraph 27(1)(b) of the Act do not apply in relation to all of the goods and/or services specified in an application for registration of a trade mark, the Registrar may require the applicant to make a declaration to the Registrar that those provisions apply to all of those goods and/or services.
Note: Section 37 of the Act and regulation 4.12 deal with the lapsing of an application before acceptance.

4.9  Examination—applicant's response to report