# The Register of Patent Agents Rules 1990, Article 12: Erasure of registration for failure to pay fee


(1) If any registered patent agent fails to pay any annual practice fee that may be prescribed by regulations made under rule 20 below within one month from the day on which it becomes payable, the Registrar shall send to him at his business address (as shown in the register) a notice requiring him to pay the fee on or before a day specified in the notice, and if that person fails to pay the fee on or before that date the Registrar may erase his name from the register.
(2) The name of a person erased from the register under this rule may be restored to it by direction of the Institute on payment by him of the fee or fees due from him, together with such further sum not exceeding the amount prescribed for the annual practice fee as the Institute may in each particular case direct.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1457/article/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-patent-agents-rules-1990/article-12
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