{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-exhibition-periods-order-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-exhibition-periods-order-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3140",
  "legislation_title": "The Films (Exhibition Periods) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/films-exhibition-periods-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order is made for the purpose of remedying or preventing adverse effects on the public interest specified in the report of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the supply of films for exhibition in cinemas in the UK published in October 1994.\nThe Order makes it unlawful for a distributor to require as a condition of supply of a film that an exhibitor show the film for a period longer than one week, or two weeks where the exhibition takes place within six weeks of the day of general release of the film in the UK.\nThe “day of general release” is defined in Article 2.\nThe Order comes into force on 1st March 1997.\nCopies of the report of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (Cmnd 2673) may be obtained from The Stationery Office.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3140/note",
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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."
}