(1) The Registrar shall remove from the Register of Geographical Indications Agents the name of any registered Geographical Indications Agent-
(a)from whom a request has been received to that effect ; or
(b) from whom the annual fee has not been received on the expiry of three months from the date on which it became due.
(2) The Registrar shall remove from the Register of Geographical Indication s Agents the name of any registered Geographical Indications agent-
(a)who is found to have been subject at the time of his registration, or thereafter has become subject to any of the disabilities stated in clauses (i) to(vi) of rule 105; or
(b) whom the Registrar has declared not to be a fit and proper person to remain in the Register by reason of any act of negligence, misconduct or dishonesty committed in his professional capacity;
(c)whose name has been entered in the register by an error or on account of misrepresentation or suppression of material fact:
Provided that before making such declaration under clause (b) and (c) the Registrar shall call upon the person concerned to show cause why his registration should not be cancelled and shall make such further enquiry, if any, as it may consider necessary.
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(3) The Registrar shall remove from the Register of Geographical Indications Agents the name of any registered geographical indications agent who is dead.
(4) The removal of the name of any person from the Register of Geographical Indications Agents shall be notified in the Official Gazette and in the Journal and shall, wherever possible , be communicated to the person concerned.
112. Power of Registrar to refuse to deal with certain agents. (1) The Registrar may refuse to recognise-
(a) any individual whose name has been removed from, and not restored to the Register;
(b) any person, not being registered as a Geographical Indications Agent, who in the opinion of the Registrar is engaged wholly or mainly in acting as agent in applying for geographical indications in India or elsewhere in the name or for the benefit of the person by whom he is employed;
(c) any company or firm, if any person whom the Registrar could refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under these rules, is acting as a director or manager of the company or is a partner in the firm.
(2) The Registrar shall also refuse to recognise as agent in respect of any business under this rule any person who neither resides nor has a place of business in India