{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-89",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-89.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/33",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994",
  "path": "section/89",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": "Video recordings: restriction of exemptions.",
  "text": "(1) Section 2 of the Video Recordings Act 1984 (exempted works) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), after the words “subsection (2)” there shall be inserted the words “ or (3) ”.\n(3) In subsection (2)—\n(a) after paragraph (c), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(d) techniques likely to be useful in the commission of offences;”; and\n(b) for the word “designed” (in both places) there shall be substituted the word “ likely ”.\n(4) After subsection (2), there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(3) A video work is not an exempted work for those purposes if, to any significant extent, it depicts criminal activity which is likely to any significant extent to stimulate or encourage the commission of offences.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1984 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 89 wholly in force at 1.11.1995; s. 89 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 172; s. 89 in force at 1.11.1995 by 1995/1957, art. 5(1) (subject to savings in art. 5(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/89",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:43.965785+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."
}