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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-unified-patent-court-immunities-and-privileges-order-2017/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111158555",
  "legislation_title": "The Unified Patent Court (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-unified-patent-court-immunities-and-privileges-order-2017",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Agreement” means the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court done in Brussels on 19th February 2013;\n“Committee” means any of the Administrative Committee, the Budget Committee and the Advisory Committee established under Article 11 of the Agreement;\n“the Court” means the Unified Patent Court established under Article 1 of the Agreement;\n“Deputy-Registrar” means the Deputy-Registrar appointed under Article 25 of the Statute;\n“Judge” means a Judge of the Court;\n“official activities” in relation to the Court means the activities that are necessary for the purposes and functions conferred upon it by the Agreement and the Statute;\n“premises of the Court” means land and buildings made available to the Court by a State party to the Agreement in accordance with Article 37 of the Agreement and used for the official activities of the Court;\n“the Presidium” means the Presidium referred to in Article 15 of the Statute;\n“the Protocol” means the Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the Unified Patent Court done in Brussels on 29th June 2016;\n“Registrar” means the Registrar appointed under Article 22 of the Statute;\n“Staff” means all personnel employed by the Court as officials and other servants of the Court except the Judges, Registrar and Deputy-Registrar;\n“State Party” means a State party to the Protocol; and\n“the Statute” means the Statute of the Court as set out in Annex I of the Agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cm 8653."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Cm 9405."
    }
  ],
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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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