{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-286",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-286.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/286",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "286",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“the comptroller” means the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks;\n“director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means any member of the body corporate;\n“the European list” means the list of professional representatives maintained by the European Patent Office in pursuance of the European Patent Convention;\n“registered patent attorney” has the meaning given by section 275 (2);\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 286 substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 208(1), 211, Sch. 21 para. 79(a) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 286 substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 208(1), 211, Sch. 21 para. 79(b) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/2350, art. 2(h) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Definition in s. 286 repealed (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 26, s. 106(2), Sch. 5; S.I. 1994/2550, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/286",
    "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."
}