Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927

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Recognition of agents.

137.—(1) Whenever under this Act any act has to be done by or to any person in connexion with a patent, design, or trade mark or any procedure relating to a patent or the obtaining thereof or to a design or trade mark or the registration thereof, such act may under and in accordance with rules made under this Act or in particular cases by special leave of the Minister be done by or to an agent of such person duly authorised in the prescribed manner.

(2) Rules under this Act may authorise the controller to refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under this Act any person whose name, having been entered in the register of patent agents under this Act, has been removed therefrom.

(3) Rules under this Act may authorise the controller to refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under this Act a company or firm of which any director or manager or any partner (as the case may be) is an individual whom the controller could refuse to recognise as an agent.

(4) The controller shall refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under this Act any person who neither resides nor has a place of business in Saorstát Eireann.