{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-agents-council-directive-regulations-1993/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-agents-council-directive-regulations-1993/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3053",
  "legislation_title": "The Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-agents-council-directive-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commendement and applicable law",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st January 1994.\n(2) These Regulations govern the relations between commercial agents and their principals and, subject to paragraph (3), apply in relation to the activities of commercial agents in Great Britain.\n(3) A court or tribunal shall:\n(a) apply the law of the other member State concerned in place of regulations 3 to 22 where the parties have agreed that the agency contract is to be governed by the law of that member State;\n(b) (whether or not it would otherwise be required to do so) apply these regulations where the law of another member State corresponding to these regulations enables the parties to agree that the agency contract is to be governed by the law of a different member State and the parties have agreed that it is to be governed by the law of England and Wales or Scotland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 1(3) substituted (16.12.1998) by The Commercial Agents (Council Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2868), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.1.1994, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3053/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:45:26.213626+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}