{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-certification-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-certification-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3281",
  "legislation_title": "The Films (Certification) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-certification-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Films Act 1985;\n“co-production film” means a film which by virtue of any Order in Council made under paragraph 4(5) of Schedule 1 to the Act is to be treated as if it is a British film for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Act;\n“core expenditure” has the same meaning as in section 34(1) of the Finance Act 2006;\n“film production company” has the same meaning as in section 32 of the Finance Act 2006.\n“group of companies” means a company and all other companies which are its subsidiaries within the meaning of section 736 of the Companies Act 1985.\n“other expenditure” means all the expenditure on the work carried out in the making of the film which is not core expenditure;\n“producer” means the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the making of the film are undertaken;\n“theatrical release” means exhibition to the paying public at the commercial cinema;\n“UK expenditure” has the same meaning as in section 35(1) of the Finance Act 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 4(5) was amended by S.I. 2006/643."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2006 c.25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c.6; section 736 was substituted by section 144(1) of the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3281/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:13:31.787988+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."
}