{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-computer-programs-regulations-1992/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-computer-programs-regulations-1992/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3233",
  "legislation_title": "The Copyright (Computer Programs) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-computer-programs-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Exclusion of decompilation of computer programs from fair dealing",
  "text": "In section 29 (research and private study), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(4) It is not fair dealing—\n(a) to convert a computer program expressed in a low level language into a version expressed in a higher level language, or\n(b) incidentally in the course of so converting the program, to copy it,\n(these acts being permitted if done in accordance with section 50B (decompilation)).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3233/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:19.837575+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."
}