{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-61.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1797",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008",
  "path": "rule/61",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Registrar may refuse to deal with certain agents; section 88",
  "text": "The registrar may refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under the Act—\n(a) a person who has been convicted of an offence under section 84;\n(b) an individual whose name has been erased from and not restored to, or who is suspended from, the register of trade mark agents on the ground of misconduct;\n(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 that person liable to have their name erased from it on the ground of misconduct;\n(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).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 61 in force at 1.10.2008, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1797/rule/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:28:07.429295+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}