{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/department-of-trade-and-industry-fees-order-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/department-of-trade-and-industry-fees-order-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/93",
  "legislation_title": "The Department of Trade and Industry (Fees) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/department-of-trade-and-industry-fees-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n(a) “the Act” means the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987;\n“the 1938 Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1938;\n“the 1949 Act” means the Registered Designs Act 1949;\n“the 1977 Act” means the Patents Act 1977;\n“the 1985 Act” means the Companies Act 1985;\n“the 1986 Act” means the Insolvency Act 1986;\n“wireless telegraphy”, “wireless telegraphy apparatus” and “interference” have the meanings given to them in section 19 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949;\n(b) any reference to any provision of the 1985 Act includes any corresponding provision of any enactment repealed and re-enacted, with or without modification, by the 1985 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1938 c. 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1949 c. 88"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1977 c. 37"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1985 c. 6 as amended by the Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1949 c. 54"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3649",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1294",
      "affecting_title": "The Department of Trade and Industry (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/93/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:55.329781+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."
}