Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) Subject to subregulation (2), if:
(a) a patent attorney's name was removed from the Register of Patent Attorneys under regulation 20.26; and
(b) the attorney requests the Designated Manager, in writing, to restore the attorney's name to the Register of Patent Attorneys; and
(c) the attorney pays:
(i) the annual registration fee payable for the year in which the reinstatement is made; and
(ii) the fee mentioned in item 107 of Schedule 7;
the Designated Manager must restore the attorney's name to the Register of Patent Attorneys.
(2) A request under paragraph (1)(b) must be made no more than 3 years after the removal of the attorney's name from the Register of Patent Attorneys.
(3) The Designated Manager may, in restoring the name of a registered patent attorney to the Register of Patent Attorneys, impose a condition that, before 1 July of the following registration year, the registered patent attorney must undertake such continuing professional education activities as the Designated Manager considers reasonable in the circumstances.
(4) If:
(a) the Designated Manager imposes a condition; and
(b) the registered patent attorney fails to comply with the condition;
the Designated Manager may remove the name of the attorney from the Register of Patent Attorneys.