Regulation 28 Amendments to the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997

(1)

The Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 12(1) (interpretation) at the appropriate place insert ““national of the United Kingdom” has the meaning given by section 178 of the 1988 Act”.

(3)

In regulation 18 (qualification for database right)—

(a)

in paragraph (1)—

(i)

for “the EEA” substitute “the United Kingdom”;

(ii)

in sub-paragraph (a), for “an EEA state” substitute “the United Kingdom”;

(iii)

in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), for “an EEA state” substitute “any part of the United Kingdom”;

(b)

in paragraph (2), for “the EEA” and for “an EEA state”, in each place it occurs, substitute “the United Kingdom”;

(c)

in paragraph (4), omit sub-paragraph (a).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1997/3032, amended by S.I. 2003/2501; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.