{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-exclusivity-agreements-order-1989/article-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) of this article, it shall be unlawful for an exhibitor or a distributor to make or carry out any agreement relating to the supply of any film for exhibition at a cinema if the agreement contains or provides for terms about exclusivity applied or to be applied to more than one film.\n(2) Paragraph (1) above shall apply to prohibit the carrying out of an agreement already in existence on 4th April 1989 (including any agreement already in existence on 28th February 1989) and any distributor or exhibitor who is a party to such an agreement shall terminate it before 2nd May 1989.\n(3) This article shall not apply to an agreement in so far as it is or, if made, would be an agreement to which the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 applies or, as the case may be, would apply.\n(4) This article shall not apply to an agreement if it relates to not more than three films in respect of their exhibition at the cinema in question as a single programme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 34."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2031",
      "affecting_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2000"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2000"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/271/article/3",
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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."
}