Article 11 Recognition of agents

The registrar may refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under the Act–

(a)

any individual whose name has been erased from, and not restored to, the register of patent agents kept in pursuance of rules made under the Patents Act 1977 or who is for the time being suspended from acting as a patent agent; or

(b)

any person who is found by the Secretary of State to have been convicted of any offence or to have been guilty of any such misconduct as, in the case of an individual registered in the register of patent agents aforesaid, would render him liable to have his name erased from it; or

(c)

any company or firm, if any person whom the registrar could refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under the Act is acting as a director or manager of the company or is a partner in the firm.