Section 1.  Implementation. In the interest of the service, until the organization of the Bureau is completed, the functions necessary to implement these Regulations shall be performed by the personnel of the former Bureau of Patents, Trademarks, and Technology Transfer as may be designated by the Director General upon the recommendation of the Chief of the Technology Transfer Registry of the Bureau of Patents Trademarks and Technology Transfer heretofore designated as Officer-in-Charge or Caretaker of the Documentation Information and Technology Transfer Bureau.  

Section 2. Fees and charges to be prepaid; fees and charges payable in advance.  Express charges, freight, postage, telephone, telefacsimile including cost of paper and other related expenses, and all other charges on any matter sent to the Office must be prepaid in full. Otherwise, the Office shall not receive nor perform any action on such matters.The filing fees and all other fees and charges payable to the Office shall be collected in advance of any service to be rendered.  
  

Section 3.  Repeal.  All rules and regulations, memoranda, circulars and memorandum circulars and parts thereof inconsistent with these Regulations particularly the Rules of Practice of the Technology Transfer Registry of the Bureau of Patents, Trademarks and Technology Transfer [BPTTT], as amended, are hereby repealed.  

Section 4.  Separability. If any provision in these Regulations or application of such provision to any circumstance is held invalid,  the remainder of these Regulations shall not be affected thereby.  

Section 5.  Effectivity. These rules and regulations shall take effect fifteen (15) days after publication in a newspaper of general circulation.