IP/N/l/NGA/T/2 Page 12 (3) The Registrar shall not be bound to recognise as such agent any person who has been proved to him to have been guilty of conduct discreditable to a trade mark agent or who has been convicted criminally or whose name has been struck off the Roll of Legal Practitioners or (during the term of his suspension) any person who has been suspended from acting as a legal practitioner. Registrable Trade Marks and Preliminary Advice (Section 17) Registrable trade marks, Arms of Nigeria. etc, Arms of a city. etc. 17. (l) The Registrar may refuse to accept any application for the registration of a mark upon which any of the following appear(a) the words "Patent", "Patented", "Registered", "Registered Design", "Copyright", "To counterfeit this is a forgery",' o-r words to the like effect; (b) the words "Red Cross" or "Geneva Cross" and representations of the Geneva and other crosses in red, or of the Swiss Federal cross in white on a red ground, or in silver on a red ground or such representations in a similar colour or colours. (2) Where there appears in a trade mark the registration of which is applied for a representation of a cross in any colour, not being one of those mentioned in the last foregoing subparagraph, the Registrar may require the applicant as a condi tion of acceptance to undertake not to use the' cross device in red or in white on a red ground or in silver on a red ground or in any similar colour or colours. 18. The following features may not appear on trade marks the registration of which is applied for(a) representations of the Arms of Nigeria or the Arms of a State (or arms so closely resembling the same as to be likely to be mistaken for them); (b) representations of the National Flag; (c) any words such as "President", "Governor," or any letters or devices if used in such a manner as to be likely to lead persons to think that the applicant is or has been employed by or supplies goods to the President or the Governor of a State in his official capacity, whether or not such be the case. 19. Where a representation of the armorial bearings, insignia orders of chivalry, decorations or flags of any State, city, town, place, society, body corporate, institution or person appears on a mark, the Registrar before proceeding to register the mark, shall, ifhe so requires, be furnished with a consent to theregistration and use o.fsuch emblems from such official" or other person as appears to. the Registrar to be entitled to give consent, and in default of such consent he may refuse to register the mark: