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5.—(1) CIPA may make regulations which provide that CIPA may by notice require a registered person to—
(a)provide information, or information of a description, specified in the notice; or
(b)produce documents, or documents of a description, specified in the notice,
for the purpose of enabling CIPA to ascertain whether the requirements of patent attorney regulations or regulations made by CIPA under this Order are being, or have been, complied with.
(2) Regulations made by CIPA for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) must make the provision in sub-paragraphs (3) to (6).
(3) A notice given to a person by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)—
(a)may specify the manner and form in which information is to be provided or documents are to be produced;
(b)must specify the period within which information is to be provided or documents are to be produced;
(c)may require the information to be provided, or the document to be produced, to CIPA or to a person specified in the notice.
(4) CIPA may pay to any registered person (or a representative of a registered person) such reasonable costs as may be incurred by that person in complying with a notice referred to under sub-paragraph (1).
(5) CIPA or a person specified in a notice by virtue of regulations made under sub-paragraph (3)(c) may take copies of or extracts from a document produced pursuant to that notice.
(6) Where a registered person (or a representative of a registered person) refuses or otherwise fails to comply with a notice given to that person under sub-paragraph (1), that person must give CIPA a notice to that effect stating the reason why that person does not comply.
6. Where a registered person refuses or otherwise fails to comply with a notice given to the person under paragraph 5(1), CIPA may apply to the High Court for an order requiring the person to comply with the notice or with such directions for the like purpose as may be contained in the order.
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