{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cultural-test-television-programmes-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cultural-test-television-programmes-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1831",
  "legislation_title": "The Cultural Test (Television Programmes) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cultural-test-television-programmes-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Corporation Tax Act 2009;\n“cast” means the actors and performers in a drama or animation, but not any extras;\n“heads of department” has the meaning given by paragraph (2);\n“participant” means a presenter, narrator, subject, or any other person who both participates and appears in a documentary or a children’s programme;\n“production crew” means all the persons directly involved in the production of a programme who do not appear in the programme;\n“programme” means a drama , a documentary, an animation or a children’s programme which is a relevant programme ;\n“qualifying person” means a national of, or a person ordinarily resident in, the United Kingdom or an EEA state;\n“recognised regional or minority language” means Welsh, Scottish-Gaelic, Irish, Scots, Ulster Scots, Cornish or British Sign Language;\n“special effects” means artificial techniques or processes, which are not visual effects, used to create an illusion in a programme; and\n“visual effects” means digital alterations to a programme's images.\n(2) “Heads of department” means—\n(a) in relation to a drama, lead cinematographer, lead production designer, lead costume designer, lead editor, lead sound designer, lead visual effects supervisor and lead hair and makeup supervisor;\n(b) in relation to a documentary, lead camera operator, lead sound recordist, lead editor and lead researcher;\n(c) in relation to an animation, lead layout supervisor, lead production designer, lead character designer, lead editor, lead sound designer, lead visual effects supervisor and lead modelling supervisor; and\n(d) in relation to a children’s programme, lead cinematographer, lead production designer, lead costume designer, lead editor, lead sound designer, lead visual effects supervisor, lead hair and makeup supervisor and lead researcher.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (23.7.2015) by The Cultural Test (Television Programmes) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1449), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)(i) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (23.7.2015) by The Cultural Test (Television Programmes) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1449), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)(ii) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Cultural Tests (Films, Television Programmes and Video Games) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1105), regs. 1, 3(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 2(2)(d) and word inserted (23.7.2015) by The Cultural Test (Television Programmes) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1449), regs. 1, 4(2)(b) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "“Drama” is defined in section 1216AC(2) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "“Relevant programme” is defined in section 1216AB of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1831/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:02.773157+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."
}