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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-infringing-intellectual-property-rights-customs-amendment-regulations-2010/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-infringing-intellectual-property-rights-customs-amendment-regulations-2010/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/324",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights (Customs) (Amendment) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-infringing-intellectual-property-rights-customs-amendment-regulations-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Customs\nMade 15th February 2010\nLaid before Parliament 16th February 2010\nComing into force 10th March 2010\nThe Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Commissioners have been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) in relation to counterfeit and pirated goods, goods infringing a patent, goods infringing a supplementary protection certificate, goods infringing plant breeders’ rights, designations of origin, geographical indications and geographical designations, and goods infringing Community plant variety rights.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The functions of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise were transferred to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by section 5 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11). Section 50(1) of that Act provides that a reference to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise shall be taken as a reference to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) has been amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/751 (in relation to counterfeit and pirated goods), S.I. 1999/654 (in relation to goods infringing a patent and goods infringing a supplementary protection certificate), and S.I. 2004/706 (in relation to goods infringing plant breeders’ rights, designations of origin, geographical indications and geographical designations, and goods infringing Community plant variety rights)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/324/introduction",
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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."
}