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(1) Except as otherwise required by the Act or these Regulations, any person may be represented in proceedings before the Office by an agent who may attend, file and sign documents on that person's behalf.

(2) Where a person becomes a party to proceedings before the Registrar appoints an agent for the first time or appoints an agent in substitution for another, the agent appointed shall file ID Form 10 with the Registrar, in duplicate 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 industrial design, whether in respect of the same or different transactions; and where more than one agent is on record, the Registrar shall recognize only the latest agent duly appointed.

(4) The Registrar shall decline to recognize as an agent any person who is not currently on the Register of Industrial Designs Agents of Malaysia compiled and maintained under regulation 33.