TRADE MARKS ACT and may draw and sign all documents and make all communications between an applicant and the Trade Marks Office and may represent an applicant at all attendances before the Registrar. (2) A trade mark agent shall not be guilty of an offence under any enactment prohibiting the preparation for reward of certain documents by persons not legally qualified by reason only of the preparation or signature by him of any document relating to trade marks for use in the Trade Marks Office or required in any proceedings under this Act before the Registrar or the Tribunal. 59 Qualifications and registration of trade mark agents (1) The Registrar shall— (a) keep a Register of Trade Mark Agents in which the name of every person, immediately upon his being accepted for registration, shall be registered, showing against his name such particulars as the Registrar shall from time to time deem necessary; and (b) enter in such Register of Trade Mark Agents all changes relating to registrations. (2) Any person ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe who— (a) has served such period of articles as may be prescribed and has passed the prescribed qualifying examinations; or (b) has passed the prescribed qualifying examinations and produces proof that he is a member in good standing of The Institute of Trade Mark Agents of the United Kingdom; or (c) produces proof that he holds a qualification recognized by the Minister as being equivalent to the qualifications required for the purposes of paragraph (a) or (b); may make application to the Registrar in the prescribed manner to be registered as a trade mark agent, and the Registrar shall arrange such registration if he is satisfied that there is no good reason why it should not be arranged and that the applicant is not a person whose name could be removed from the Register of Trade Mark Agents under paragraph (b), (c) or (f) of subsection (1) of section sixty: Provided that an officer in the Public Service who has been employed in the Trade Marks Office shall not be registered as a trade mark agent or be permitted to practice as such until at least twelve months have expired since he ceased to be so employed. (3) Any person who, immediately before the appointed day, was registered as a trade mark agent in terms of the repealed legislation or was a patent agent shall be registered in terms of subsection (1) as a trade mark agent. (4) An appeal shall lie from any decision of the Registrar under subsection (2). 60 Removal of names from Register of Trade Mark Agents (1) The Registrar may remove from the Register of Trade Mark Agents the name of any trade mark agent upon proof to his satisfaction that that trade mark agent— (a) has died; or (b) has become of unsound mind; or (c) has been adjudged insolvent under any law in force in Zimbabwe or has made an assignment to, or composition with, his creditors; or (d) has ceased to reside in Zimbabwe or has ceased to maintain a place of business therein; or (e) has applied for his name to be so removed; or 111 ss 54–60 [Chapter 26:04]