(1) The fees to be paid in respect of applications, oppositions, registration, renewal or any other matters under the Act or the rules shall be those specified in the First Schedule, hereinafter referred to as the prescribed fees.
(2) Where in respect of any matter a fee is required to be paid under the rules, the form or the application or the request of the petition, therefor, shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(3) Fees may be paid in cash or sent by money order addressed to the Registrar of Geographical Indications or by a bank draft issued by, or by a cheque drawn on by a scheduled bank at the place where the appropriate office of the Geographical Indications Registry is situated and if sent through posts shall be deemed to have been paid at the time when the money order or the properly addressed bank draft or cheque would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
(4) Bank drafts and cheques shall be crossed and made payable to the Registrar at the appropriate office of the Geographical Indications Registry and they shall be drawn on a scheduled bank at the place where the appropriate office of the Geographical Indications Registry is situate.
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(5) Where a fee is payable in respect of filing of document and either the document is filed without fee or with insufficient fee, such document shall be deemed to have not been filed for the purposes any proceedings under the rules.
(6) Where any fee paid by a party is ordered to be returned by the Registrar under any of the provisions of the Act or the rules the amount may be refunded by money order in which event money order commission shall be deductible from such amount.
(7) The Registrar may after notification in the Geographical Indications Journal make available electronic fee transfer facilities subject to such conditions as may be specified on that behalf.