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Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

United Kingdom

In these Regulations—

  • “author”, in relation to a work, means the person who creates it;

  • “collecting society” has the meaning given in regulation 14(5);

  • “contract date”, in relation to a sale, means the time at which the contract of sale was made (and “contract of sale” has the meaning given in section 2 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979f1);

  • “copyright” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988f2;

  • F1...

  • F2“national of the United Kingdom” has the meaning given by section 178 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  • “qualifying body” has the meaning given in regulation 7(4);

  • F3...

  • “resale” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 12;

  • “resale right” has the meaning given in regulation 3 (and, unless the context otherwise requires, includes a share in resale right);

  • “resale royalty” has the meaning given in regulation 3;

  • “sale” has the meaning given in section 2 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979;

  • “sale price” has the meaning given in regulation 3(4);

  • “trustee in bankruptcy” means, in relation to Scotland, an interim or permanent trustee appointed under the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985f3;

  • “work” has the meaning given in regulation 4;

  • “work of joint authorship” has the meaning given in regulation 5(4).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/605), regs. 1(2), 29(2)(a) (with reg. 38) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/605), regs. 1(2), 29(2)(b) (with reg. 38) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3

Words in reg. 2 omitted (1.1.2012) by virtue of The Artist’s Resale Right (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2873), regs. 1, 3

Commencement

I1

Reg. 2 in force at 14.2.2006 in accordance with reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

1979 c. 54.

f2

1988 c. 48. There is an amendment to section 1 that is not relevant to these Regulations.

f3

1985 c. 66.