HL Deb 02 November 1988 vol 501 cc346-7

254 Clause 256, page 112, line 2, leave out from 'persons' to end of line 8 and insert ', and may in particular—

  1. (a) require the payment of such fees as may be prescribed, and
  2. (b) authorise in prescribed cases the erasure from the register of the name of any person registered in it, or the suspension of a person's registration.

(3) The rules may delegate the keeping of the register to another person, and may confer on that person—

  1. (a) power to make regulations—
    1. (i) with respect to the payment of fees, in the cases and subject to the limits prescribed by rules, and
    2. (ii) with respect to any other matter which could he regulated by rules, and
  2. (b) such other functions, including disciplinary functions, as may be prescribed by rules.'.

Lord Strathclyde

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 254. I should also like to speak to Amendment No. 265. Both these amendments concern shortcomings in the powers governing the establishment of the registers of patent agents and trade mark agents. The amendments will ensure that the Secretary of State has the power to make rules requiring the payment of fees in connection with various matters concerning the registers. They will also allow him to delegate this power to the bodies to which the keeping of the register has been delegated.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 254.—(Lord Strathclyde.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.