62 CAP. 400] 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 (3) Repealed by Act No. 18 of 1980.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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