An Examining Division will normally consist of three technical examiners. However, within the Examining Division made responsible for the application, one member will, as a general rule, be entrusted to carry out all the work up to the point of a decision to grant a patent or refuse the application. This means that this examiner is entrusted to act on behalf of the Examining Division in all communications with the applicant up to that point, but he may confer informally with the other members of the Division at any time if a special point of doubt or difficulty arises (see VI, 7.1). Where reference is made in this Part C of the Guidelines to the "examiner", this normally means the examiner entrusted with the work in this way, and it should be understood that this primary examiner is always acting in the name of the Examining Division. This examiner is normally the examiner who drafted the search report.