Article 2

Rule 14 of the Trade Marks and Service Marks Rules 1986^f1 is amended by substituting for paragraph(5) thereof the following paragraph—

“(5)

The Registrar may refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under the 1938 Act or the modified 1938 Act—

(a)

a person who has been convicted of an offence under section 283 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988^f2;

(b)

an individual whose name has been erased from and not restored to the register of trade mark agents required to be kept pursuant to rules made under section 282 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 on the ground of misconduct;

(c)

a person who is found by the Secretary of State to have been guilty of such conduct as would, in the case of an individual registered in that register, render him liable to have his name erased from it on the ground of misconduct;

(d)

a partnership or body corporate of which one of the partners or directors is a person whom the Registrar could refuse to recognise under paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above.”.