# The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008, Regulation 2: Interpretation

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) In these Regulations—
“advertising” means any form of representation which is made in connection with a trade, business, craft or profession in order to promote the supply or transfer of a product and “advertiser” shall be construed accordingly;
“CMA” means the Competition and Markets Authority;
“code owner” means a trader or a body responsible for—
(a)the formulation and revision of a code of conduct; or
(b)monitoring compliance with the code by those who have undertaken to be bound by it;
“comparative advertising” means advertising which in any way, either explicitly or by implication, identifies a competitor or a product offered by a competitor;
“court”, in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, means a county court or the High Court, and, in relation to Scotland, the sheriff or the Court of Session;
“DETINI” means the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland;
“enforcement authority” means the CMA, every local weights and measures authority, DETINI and GEMA;
“GEMA” means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority;
“goods” includes ships, aircraft, animals, things attached to land and growing crops;
“local weights and measures authority” means a local weights and measures authority in Great Britain (within the meaning of section 69 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985);
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“premises” includes any place and any stall, vehicle, ship or aircraft;
“product” means any goods or services and includes immovable property, rights and obligations;
“ship” includes any boat and any other description of vessel used in navigation; and
“trader” means any person who is acting for purposes relating to his trade, craft, business or profession and anyone acting in the name of or on behalf of a trader.
(2) In the application of these Regulations to Scotland for references to an “injunction” or an “interim injunction” there shall be substituted references to an “ “interdict ” or an “ “interim interdict ” respectively.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1276/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-regulations-2008/regulation-2
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