{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-31BB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/section-31BB.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/31BB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31BB",
  "heading": "Accessible and intermediate copies: records and notification",
  "text": "(1) A person listed in subsection (3) may request an authorised body—\n(a) making accessible copies under section 31B, or\n(b) making intermediate copies under section 31BA,\nto provide the person with the information in subsection (4).\n(2) On receipt of a request under subsection (1), an authorised body must provide the information to the person in an accessible way within a reasonable time.\n(3) The persons who may make a request under subsection (1) are—\n(a) disabled person;\n(b) another authorised body;\n(c) rightholders.\n(4) The information that must be provided by the authorised body is—\n(a) the list of works for which it has accessible copies and the available formats, and\n(b) the name and contact details of any authorised body established in a member State of the European Union from which, or to which, it has imported, exported or accessed an accessible copy.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 31B, 31BA, 31BB substituted (1.6.2014) for s. 31B by The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Disability) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1384), regs. 1(1), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 31BB(1)-(4) substituted for s. 31BB(1)-(3) (11.10.2018) by The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 31BB(4)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/605), regs. 1(2), 10 (with reg. 38) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/31BB",
    "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."
}