{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-exhibition-periods-order-1996/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-exhibition-periods-order-1996/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3140",
  "legislation_title": "The Films (Exhibition Periods) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-exhibition-periods-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "It shall be unlawful for a distributor to require, as a condition of the supply of a film to an exhibitor for exhibition in a cinema on or after the day of general release of that film, that the exhibitor should exhibit the film for a period longer than—\n(a) in the case of the exhibition of a film for a period commencing within six weeks of the day of general release of the film, two weeks; or\n(b) in any other case, one week.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.3.1997, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3140/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:35:18.007418+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."
}