{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2967",
  "legislation_title": "The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-related-rights-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992, as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993; and\n“EEA state” means a member State, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway.\n“national of the United Kingdom” has the meaning given by section 178 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (29.4.2006) by The Intellectual Property (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1028), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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), 27(2) (with reg. 38) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.12.1996, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cm 2073."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Cm 2183."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2967/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:28.393911+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."
}