Singapore legislation
Clause 104
of Patents Bill
Clause 104
Registration of patent agents
(1)
The Minister may make rules requiring the keeping of a register of persons who act as agent for others for the purposes of applying for or obtaining patents.
(2)
The rules may contain such provision as the Minister thinks fit regulating the registration of persons and may, in particular, require the payment of such fees as may be prescribed and authorise in prescribed cases the erasure from the register of the name of any person registered in it, or the suspension of the registration of any person.
(3)
The rules may delegate the keeping of the register to another person, and may confer on that person such functions, including disciplinary functions, as may be prescribed.
(4)
Such rules may provide that a contravention of the rules shall be an offence and may provide penalties not exceeding a fine of $5,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or both.