{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1981/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1981/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/55",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1981",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Members of the armed forces are “employees” for the purposes of the Patents Act 1977.",
  "text": "(1) The Patents Act 1977 shall have effect, and be deemed always to have had effect, with the following amendments (being amendments to secure that members of the armed forces are “employees” for the purposes of that Act).\n(2) In section 42(4), at the end of the definition of “Crown employee”, there shall be added the words “or a person serving in the naval, military or air forces of the Crown.”.\n(3) In section 130(1), at the end of the definition of “employee, there shall be added the words ,q>or a person who serves (or served) in the naval, military or air forces of thr Crown”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 2, 3, 4(2), 5, 6(1)(2)(3)(c)(4)(5)(6), 7, 8, 10–12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20(3), 21–23, 24(2), 28(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/55/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:25:59.428955+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}