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8.—(1) CIPA may issue a notice, warning or reprimand in respect of any breach of the requirements of patent attorney regulations or regulations made by CIPA under this Order, and cause this to be noted against a registered person’s entry in the register of patent attorneys kept under section 275 of the 1988 Act (register of patent attorneys)(1).
(2) CIPA may, if it considers it appropriate to do so in any particular case, communicate to the public that it has issued a notice, warning or reprimand to a registered person under sub-paragraph (1).
(3) For the purpose of giving effect to sub-paragraph (1), CIPA must make regulations which make provision as to—
(a)the breaches of the requirements of patent attorney regulations or regulations made by CIPA under this Order in respect of which CIPA may issue a notice, warning or reprimand under sub-paragraph (1);
(b)the criteria and procedure to be applied by CIPA in determining whether to issue any such notice, warning or reprimand; and
(c)the form that any such notice, warning or reprimand may take and the process by which it may be issued.
Section 275 of the 1988 Act was substituted by section 185(3) of the Legal Services Act 2007.
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