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(1) An applicant, opponent or registered proprietor of a geographical indication who does not reside or carry on business in Malaysia shall file Form GI 2 giving an address for service in Malaysia and such address may be treated as the actual address of the person for all purposes connected with the matter in question.

(2) Any other applicant, opponent or registered proprietor of a geographical indication may, if he so desires, file Form GI 2 giving an address for service in Malaysia.

(3) Subject to subregulation 6(2) and regulation 13, Form GI 2 filed under these Regulations may be signed by an authorized agent and in any case in which the Registrar so requires shall be signed by the applicant, opponent, or registered proprietor, as the case may be.

(4) In any case in which no address for service is filed at the Office, the Registrar may treat the business address in Malaysia, if any, of the person concerned as his address for service for all purposes connected with the matter in question.

(5) Any written communication addressed to a person at an address given by him or treated by the Registrar as his address for service shall be deemed to be properly addressed.

(6) The Registrar may, at any time that a doubt arises as to the continued availability of an address for service entered in the Register, request the person for whom it is entered, by letter addressed to his business address in the Register, to confirm the address for service or to provide another by filing Form GI 2, and if within two months of making such a request, the Registrar receives no confirmation or substitution of that address, he may strike the address off the Register.