The Trade Marks Rules 1994

Registrar may refuse to deal with certain agents; s.88

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

(a)a person who has been convicted of an offence under section 84;

(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;

(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.