S.L. 445.7 Art. 9The application.

(1) Applications may be made according to the published form, against payment of the required fee to the Chief Herald for a Grant or Registration of Arms, as the case may be.

(2) All fees shall be non-refundable irrespective of the outcome.

(3) Notice of applications for a Grant or Registration of Arms shall be published by the Office in the Gazette not more than twenty-one

(21) days following the receipt by the Chief Herald of the completed application form. This notice shall indicate the particulars of the applicant and a blazon of the arms so applied for.

(4) The publication of the notice mentioned in sub-regulation

(3) shall be deemed for all purposes of law to be sufficient notice for anyone to make known to the Chief Herald by not later than twenty-one

(21) days after publication of any valid and cogent representations for or against the application which representations shall be addressed to the Registrar either in writing by means of registered mail to the Office of the Chief Herald or electronically by means of email to the email

(5) No representation may be received after the lapse of the twenty-one (21) days described in sub-regulation (4). Thereafter, the Chief Herald shall determine each application within not more than sixty (60) working days:

Provided that the aforesaid term shall be interrupted when the Chief Herald directs the applicant to make appropriate amendments to the application.

(6) The direction for amendments shall contain considered reasons and shall be delivered to the applicant either in writing by means of registered mail to the applicant’s postal address or electronically by means of email to the address as provided by the applicant.