{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-exclusivity-agreements-order-1989/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/271",
  "legislation_title": "The Films (Exclusivity Agreements) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-exclusivity-agreements-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "In this Order–\n“cinema” means any premises in Great Britain which are used for the exhibition of films and which require a licence or consent for that purpose under section 1 or 2 of the Cinemas Act 1985;\n“distributor” means a person carrying on the business of supplying films to exhibitors for exhibition;\n“exhibition” means exhibition to the public;\n“exhibitor” means a person carrying on the business of exhibiting films;\n“film” means any record, however made, capable of being used as a means of showing a sequence of visual images as a moving picture;\n“terms about exclusivity” means terms restricting a distributor from authorising the exhibition of a film at a cinema.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 13."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/271/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:49:28.149390+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."
}