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Patents
(h) having been entitled to practise as a legal practitioner, or a
patent agent, has ceased to practise as such.
An appeal shall lie from any decision of the Registrar made under the
provisions of this subsection.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this section and such procedure as
may be prescribed, the High Court may order the Registrar to remove
the name of any patent agent from the register of patent agents or
may suspend any patent agent from practising as such for such time
as it thinks fit if it is satisfied, after due inquiry, that such person has
been guilty of conduct discreditable to a patent agent or has been
guilty of a breach of any regulations prescribed for the conduct of
patent agents.
(3) Repealed by Act No. 18 of 1980.
(4) Any institute or other organisation recognised by the Minister
as being representative of the patent agents in Zambia shall be enti
tled to be represented, to adduce evidence and to be heard by the
High Court before it makes any order in terms of subsection (2).
(5) Where the name of any patent agent has been removed from
the register of patent agents under the provisions of subsection (1) or
(2), his name shall not be restored to that register except by direction
of the High Court, which may further direct that such restoration
shall be made either without fee or on payment of such fee, not
exceeding the registration fee, as it may fix, and the Registrar shall
restore the name accordingly.
(As amended by No.1 of 1962
and G.N. No. 185 of 1964)
Privileges of
legal pructi
tioners
70. Every person entitled to practise as a legal practitioner in
Zambia may practise as a patent agent and perform the functions set
out in section sixty-seven without being registered as a patent agent,
but no such person shall be entitled to be so registered except under
the provisions of section sixty-eight.
(As amended by G.N. No. 185 of 1964)
Entitlementto
practiseas
patent agent
71. (1) No person shall practise as a patent agent unless he is regis
tered as such or is, by virtue of section seventy, entitled so to practise.
(2) A person shall be deemed to practise as a patent agent if he
performs any of the functions of a patent agent set out in section
sixty-seven or if he carries on within Zambia the business of apply
ing for or obtaining for others patents in Zambia or elsewhere.
(3) No person who is not a legal practitioner or registered as a
patent agent shall describe himself as, or hold himself out to be, a
patent agent or any term implying such a meaning, nor shall he per
mit himself to be so described or held out.
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