{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intellectual-property-exhaustion-of-rights-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intellectual-property-exhaustion-of-rights-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/265",
  "legislation_title": "The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intellectual-property-exhaustion-of-rights-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988",
  "text": "(1) The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 18 (infringement by issue of copies to the public) , in subsection (2), after “put into circulation in” insert “ the United Kingdom or ”.\n(3) In section 27 (meaning of “infringing copy”) , in subsection (5), for the words from “any enforceable” to the end substitute “ anything which forms part of retained EU law as a result of section 3 or 4 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ”.\n(4) In section 182B (consent required for issue of copies to the public) —\n(a) in subsection (2), for “EEA” (in each place) substitute “ UK-EEA area ”;\n(b) in subsection (3)—\n(i) in paragraph (b), for “another” substitute “ an ”;\n(ii) in the words after that paragraph, for “EEA” (in both places) substitute “ UK-EEA area ”;\n(c) after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) In this section “UK-EEA area” means the United Kingdom and the EEA, taken together.”.\n(5) In section 228 (meaning of “infringing article”) , in subsection (5), for the words from “any enforceable” to the end substitute “ anything which forms part of retained EU law as a result of section 3 or 4 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1988 c.48."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Section 18 was amended by S.I. 1992/3233, S.I. 1996/2967 and S.I. 2018/995."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Section 27 was amended by S.I. 2011/1043; there are other amending instruments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "Section 182B was inserted by S.I. 1996/2967."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "Section 228 was amended by S.I. 2011/1043."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/265/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:47:23.229297+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."
}