{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-rules-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-rules-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1130",
  "legislation_title": "The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-rules-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;\n“applicant” means a person who has referred a dispute or made an application to the Comptroller;\n“application” means an application to the Comptroller to settle or vary the terms of a licence of right or to adjust the terms of a licence;\n“dispute” means a dispute as to any of the matters referred to in rule 3(1); and\n“proceedings” means proceedings before the Comptroller in respect of a dispute or application.\n(2) A rule or schedule referred to by number means the rule or schedule so numbered in these Rules; and a requirement under these Rules to use a form set out in Schedule 1 is satisfied by the use either of a replica of that form or of a form which contains the information required by the form set out in the said Schedule and which is acceptable to the Comptroller.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2 in force at 1.8.1989, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1130/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:41:21.905642+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."
}