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Entitlement to be registered as trade mark agent. 
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86.—(1) Any person who— 
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(a) resides in the State or in such other state as may be prescribed, 
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(b) has a place of business in the State, 
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(c) possesses the prescribed educational and professional qualifications, and 
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(d) complies with the prescribed conditions, 
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shall be eligible to be a registered trade mark agent and a partnership shall be so eligible if every partner is registered in accordance with the provisions of this section; and, on application in the prescribed form and manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, a person or partnership so eligible shall be registered. 
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(2) Persons and partnerships whose names were entered in the Register under the Act of 1963 immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue to be registered trade mark agents. 
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