{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/development-of-inventions-act-1967/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/development-of-inventions-act-1967/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/32",
  "legislation_title": "Development of Inventions Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/development-of-inventions-act-1967",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Short title, interpretation, repeals, savings and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Development of Inventions Act 1967.\n(2) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Corporation” means the National Research Development Corporation;\n“invention” includes any new process or new technique and shall be construed without regard to whether or not a patent has been or could be granted;\n“the Minister” means the Secretary of State.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1970/1537, arts. 2(2), 7(4) and S.I. 1974/692, arts. 2(3), 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 15(3)-(8) repealed (6.1.1992) by British Technology Group Act 1991 (c. 66, SIF 64), s. 17(2), Sch. 2 Pt.I; S.I. 1991/2721, art.2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1991/66",
      "affecting_title": "British Technology Group Act 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/32/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:55:39.245907+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."
}