{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-rights-in-databases-regulations-1997/regulation-20A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-rights-in-databases-regulations-1997/regulation-20A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3032",
  "legislation_title": "The Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-and-rights-in-databases-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/20A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20A",
  "heading": "Exceptions to database right: deposit libraries",
  "text": "(1) Database right in a database is not infringed by the copying of a work from the internet by a deposit library or person acting on its behalf if—\n(a) the work is of a description prescribed by regulations under section 10(5) of the 2003 Act,\n(b) its publication on the internet, or a person publishing it there, is connected with the United Kingdom in a manner so prescribed, and\n(c) the copying is done in accordance with any conditions so prescribed.\n(2) Database right in a database is not infringed by the doing of anything in relation to relevant material permitted to be done under regulations under section 7 of the 2003 Act.\n(3) Regulations under section 44A(3) of the 1988 Act exclude the application of paragraph (2) in relation to prescribed activities in relation to relevant material as (and to the extent that) they exclude the application of section 44A(2) of that Act in relation to those activities.\n(4) In this Regulation—\n(a) “the 2003 Act” means the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003;\n(b) “deposit library” and “relevant material” have the same meaning as in section 7 of the 2003 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 20A inserted (30.10.2003 for specified purposes, 1.2.2004 in so far as not already in force) by Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 (c. 28), ss. 8(2), 16(1) (with s. 16(4)); S.I. 2004/130, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3032/regulation/20A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:10.623966+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."
}