{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-219",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-219.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/48",
  "legislation_title": "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988",
  "path": "section/219",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "219",
  "heading": "Qualification by reference to employer.",
  "text": "(1) A design qualifies for design right protection if it is created in the course of employment with a qualifying person.\n(2) In the case of ... joint employment a design qualifies for design right protection if any of the ... employers is a qualifying person.\n(3) Where a design which is ... created in the course of joint employment qualifies for design right protection under this section, only those ... employers who are qualifying persons are entitled to design right under section 215(3) (first ownership of design right: entitlement of ... employer).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 219(1) substituted (1.10.2014) by Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 2(2)(c), 24(1) (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 219(2) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 2(2)(d), 24(1) (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 219(3) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 2(2)(e), 24(1) (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 219(3) substituted (1.10.2014) by Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 2(2)(f), 24(1) (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 219 heading substituted (1.10.2014) by Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 2(2)(c), 24(1) (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/219",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:40.311838+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."
}