
1 
These Rules may be cited as the Registered Trade Mark Agents (Mixed Partnerships and Bodies Corporate) Rules 1994 and shall come into force on 24th March 1994.
2 
In these Rules—
 “the Act” means the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;
 “registered trade mark agent” means a person whose name is entered in the register kept pursuant to rules made under section 282 of the Act;
3 
For the purposes of section 283 of the Act (persons entitled to describe themselves as registered trade mark agents) the conditions to be satisfied, in the case of a partnership where not all the partners are registered trade mark agents or in the case of a body corporate where not all the directors are registered trade mark agents, are—
(a) that each partner or, as the case may be, director shall be a person whose name is entered in at least one of the registers kept pursuant to rules made under sections 275 and 282 of the Act; and
(b) that at least one-quarter of the partners or, as the case may be, the directors shall be registered trade mark agents.
Patrick McLoughlin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Trade and Industry
17th February 1994