{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988.json",
  "id": "uksi/1988/915",
  "title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988",
  "short_title": "Control of Misleading Advertisements 1988",
  "long_title": "These Regulations implement Council Directive No. 84/450/EEC (OJ No. L 250 19.9.1984, p. 17) relating to misleading advertising.",
  "citation": "S.I. 1988/915",
  "type": "uksi",
  "year": "1988",
  "number": "915",
  "version": "current",
  "date": "1988-05-23",
  "revised": false,
  "valid_from": null,
  "extent": null,
  "unapplied_effects": 33,
  "provisions": [
    {
      "path": "introduction",
      "kind": "introduction",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Introductory text",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/introduction",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/1",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": "Citation and commencement",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/2",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": "Interpretation",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/3",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "3",
      "heading": "Application",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-3",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/4",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "4",
      "heading": "Complaints to the Director",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-4",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/5",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "5",
      "heading": "Applications to the Court by the Director",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/6",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "6",
      "heading": "Functions of the Court",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-6",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/7",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "7",
      "heading": "Powers of the Director to obtain and disclose information and disclosure of information generally",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-7",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/8",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "8",
      "heading": "Complaints to the IBA",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-8",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/9",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "9",
      "heading": "Control by the IBA of misleading advertisements",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-9",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/10",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "10",
      "heading": "Complaints to the Cable Authority",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-10",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "regulation/11",
      "kind": "regulation",
      "number": "11",
      "heading": "Control by the Cable Authority of misleading advertisements",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/regulation-11",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "signature",
      "kind": "signature",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Signature",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/signature",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "note",
      "kind": "note",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Explanatory note",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/note",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    }
  ],
  "has_text": true,
  "pdfs": [
    {
      "title": "Printed copy",
      "main": true,
      "language": null,
      "date": "2023-11-22",
      "size": 707512,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/pdf/uksi_19880915_en.pdf",
      "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/915/pdfs/uksi_19880915_en.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "reg. 7(6)(d)(e)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/40",
      "affecting_title": "Enterprise Act 2002",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "reg. 7(6)(a)(b)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/40",
      "affecting_title": "Enterprise Act 2002",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affected_provisions": "reg. 3(a)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/3218",
      "affecting_title": "The Banking Coordination (Second Council Directive) Regulations 1992 (revoked)",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 10 para. 51"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "reg. 3(2)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1537",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Offers of Securities Regulations 1995",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 2 para. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "reg. 3(1)(b)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1537",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Offers of Securities Regulations 1995",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 2 para. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "extended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg. 3",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/3275",
      "affecting_title": "The Investment Services Regulations 1995",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 10 para. 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.4A",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.5"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.5",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.6"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.6",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.7"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.7",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.8"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.8",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.9"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.9",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.10",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.11"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.11",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.12"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.4",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.4"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.2 defn(s).",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": null,
      "affected_provisions": "Act",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affected_provisions": "reg.2",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/914",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg.3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "reg. 3",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3649",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 390"
    },
    {
      "type": "Commencement Order",
      "affected_provisions": "specified amended provision(s)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1397",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings)Order 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 2(1) Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "reg. 7(7)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1400",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Part 9 Restrictions on Disclosure of Information) (Amendment and Specification) Order 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 4",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 8",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 3(1), (2), (4)–(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 9",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 10",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 5(1), (3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 10",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 5(1), (2), (4)–(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 11",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 8",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 3(1), (3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 2 defn(s)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 1(1), (3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 2 defn(s)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 1(1), (4), (5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affected_provisions": "reg 2 defn(s)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3183",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Misleading Advertisements (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "reg 2, Schedule, para 1(1), (2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "Commencement Order",
      "affected_provisions": "specified amended provision(s)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/766",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Commencement No. 2, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2003",
      "affecting_provisions": "art. 2 Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affected_provisions": "Order",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1277",
      "affecting_title": "The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008",
      "affecting_provisions": "Sch. 2 para. 81 Sch. 4 Pt. 2"
    }
  ],
  "made_under": [
    {
      "id": "ukpga/1972/68",
      "title": "European Communities Act 1972 (repealed)",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-act-1972-repealed",
      "provisions": [
        "section/2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "changes_made_to": 33,
  "changes_made_to_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/changes.json",
  "changes_made_by": 0,
  "changes_made_by_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/changes/by-it.json",
  "instruments_made_under": 0,
  "instruments_made_under_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-misleading-advertisements-regulations-1988/instruments.json",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/915",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:06:17.999960+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."
}