Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1991 No. 71 PATENTS REGULATIONS - REG 20.1

20.1 In this Chapter, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Board" means the Patent Attorneys Professional Standards Board established by
subregulation 20.32 (1);

"candidate" means a person who proposes or proposed to sit, or has sat, for an
examination;

"Disciplinary Tribunal" means the Patent Attorneys Disciplinary Tribunal
established by regulation 20.41;

"examination" means an examination held under regulation 20.6;

"former attorney" means a patent attorney whose registration has been
suspended or cancelled under Part 4 ("discipline");

"Institute" means the Institute of Patent Attorneys of Australia incorporated
under the law of Victoria;

"member" means a member of the Board other than the Commissioner;

"Register of Patent Attorneys" means the register kept under section 198 of
the Act ("registration of patent attorneys");

"unprofessional conduct" means conduct on the part of a patent attorney
whereby he or she can be regarded as committing a gross failure to comply with
the standards that, in the circumstances, it is reasonable to require the
patent attorney to observe;

"unqualified", in relation to a particular time, means lacking a qualification
required for registration at that time by these Regulations or the
former attorneys Regulations;

"unsatisfactory conduct" means not having attained or sustained a professional
standard that is consistent with the standard of practice of patent attorneys.