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5.—(1) ITMA must make regulations which provide that ITMA 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 ITMA to ascertain whether the requirements of trade mark attorney regulations or regulations made by ITMA under this Order are being, or have been complied with.
(2) Regulations made by ITMA 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 any 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; and
(c)may require the information to be provided, or the document to be produced, to ITMA or to a person specified in the notice.
(4) ITMA 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 in sub-paragraph (1).
(5) ITMA 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 a 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 ITMA a notice to that effect stating the reason why that person does not comply.
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