person in respect of the proceeding or matter may be addressed to LAWS OF MALAWI Trade marks Trade Marks Regulations Cap. 49:01 (Subsidiary) such agent, and all attendances upon the Registrar relating thereto may be made by or through such agent. In any particular case the Registrar may require the personal signature or presence of an applicant, opponent, proprietor, registered user or other person. (3) 15. The Registrar shall not be bound to recognize as such agent any person:­ (a) Who has been proved to him to have been guilty of conduct discreditable to a trade mark agent; or (b) Who has been convicted of a criminal offence and sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine; or (c) Who has been suspended from practice as a legal practitioner or whose name has been struck off the roll of legal practitioners whether in Malawi or elsewhere; (d) Who has been adjudged guilty of conduct discreditable to a patent agent; or (e) Who has been suspended from practice as a patent agent, or whose name has been erased from the register of patent agents kept under the Patents Act and not subsequently restored. (1) The Registrar may refuse to accept any application for the registration of a mark upon which any of the following appear:­ (2) (a) the words “Patent”, “Patented”, “Registered”, “Registered Design”, Copyright”, “Entered as Stationers’ Hall, “To counterfeit this is a forgery”, or words to like effect; (b) representations of the President or any colourable imitations thereof: (c) 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 or a red ground or silver on a red ground, or such representations in a similar colour or colours. 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 sub-regulation (1)(c ) the Registrar may require the applicant as a condition of acceptance to undertake not to use the cross device in red, or in which on a red ground or silver on a red ground, or in any similar colour or colours. Registrable marks. trade