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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-patent-agents-rules-1990/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-patent-agents-rules-1990/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1457",
  "legislation_title": "The Register of Patent Agents Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-patent-agents-rules-1990",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Entitlement to registration",
  "text": "(1) Unless a direction under paragraph (3) below in relation to him is in force, a person who qualifies for registration under rule 9 above shall be entitled to have his name entered in the register on production to the Registrar of evidence that he qualifies for registration under that rule and on the payment of the fee prescribed by regulations under rule 20 below.\n(2) The Registrar may, for the purpose of satisfying himself that a person has completed the requisite number of years of practice, require that person to submit to him a statutory declaration attesting to that fact and may require such further particulars of that practice as he may consider necessary.\n(3) The Secretary of State may, upon being satisfied after due inquiry in accordance with rule 15 below that a person (who would otherwise be entitled to be registered) has been guilty of misconduct, direct that the name of that person shall not be registered, and upon such direction the Registrar shall not, except with the prior consent of the Secretary of State, register the name of that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/3348",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Services Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2009"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1457/article/10",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}