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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-designs-international-registration-of-industrial-designs-order-2017/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111160794",
  "legislation_title": "The Designs (International Registration of Industrial Designs) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-designs-international-registration-of-industrial-designs-order-2017",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 2006 Rules” means the Registered Design Rules 2006;\n“the Act” means the Registered Designs Act 1949 and “section” means a section of that Act;\n“Common Regulations” means the regulations adopted under Article 24 of the Geneva Act with effect from 1st January 2017;\n“Geneva Act” means the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs adopted by the diplomatic conference on 2nd July 1999;\n“holder”, in relation to an international registration, means the person in whose name an international registration is recorded in the International Register;\n“International Bureau” means the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation;\n“International Register” means the register of industrial designs maintained by the International Bureau for the purposes of the Geneva Act;\n“international registration” means a registration of a design in the International Register for the purpose of the Geneva Act and the Common Regulations;\n“protected international registration (UK)” means a grant of protection under Rule 18bis of the Common Regulations for a design which is the subject of a request for international registration (UK), and references to “protection” and “protected” are construed accordingly;\n“request for international registration (UK)”means a request for international registration made in pursuance of Article 5(1) of the Geneva Act in respect of which the United Kingdom is a designated Contracting Party.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/1975, amended by S.I. 2008/2683, S.I. 2009/546, S.I. 2013/444."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The National Archive Reference for the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement is FO 949/1049/0: 0. The text of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement is also available at http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=12531."
    }
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  "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."
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