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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appointed-person-designs-rules-2015/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appointed-person-designs-rules-2015/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/169",
  "legislation_title": "The Appointed Person (Designs) Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appointed-person-designs-rules-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Designs\nMade 5th February 2015\nLaid before Parliament 11th February 2015\nComing into force 6th April 2015\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by section 36 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 and section 250 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 makes the following Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c.88; section 36 was amended by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c.48), Schedule 3, paragraph 26, S.I. 2001/3949, Schedule 1, paragraph 11 and the Intellectual Property Ac 2014 (c.18), section 12(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c.48."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/169/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}