{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-222",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/13",
  "legislation_title": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024",
  "path": "section/222",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "222",
  "heading": "Other interpretative provisions",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“business” includes—\n(a) a trade, craft or profession,\n(b) any other undertaking carried on for gain or reward, and\n(c) the activities of any government department or local or public authority;\n“enforcement order” means an order made under section 156;\n“enforcer” means a public designated enforcer or a private designated enforcer;\n“goods” includes—\n(a) immoveable property, and\n(b) rights and obligations;\n“interim enforcement order” means an order made under section 159;\n“interim online interface order” means an order made under section 162;\n“online interface order” means an order made under section 161;\n“subsidiary” has the meaning given by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006;\n“supply” includes supply by means of sale, lease, hire or hire purchase.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 222 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 222 in force at 6.4.2025 by S.I. 2025/272, reg. 2(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/section/222",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:09.592730+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."
}