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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intellectual-property-unjustified-threats-act-2017-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/771",
  "legislation_title": "The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intellectual-property-unjustified-threats-act-2017-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 1949 Act” means the Registered Designs Act 1949;\n“the 1977 Act” means the Patents Act 1977;\n“the 1988 Act” means the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;\n“the 1994 Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1994;\n“the 2005 Regulations” means the Community Design Regulations 2005;\n“the 2006 Regulations” means the Community Trade Mark Regulations 2006;\n“the 2017 Act” means the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017;\n“the appointed day” means the day appointed by regulation 2(1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 14.7.2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c. 88. Section 26 is substituted and section 45 is amended by the provisions of the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 which are brought into force by regulation 2 of these Regulations. Section 26 was previously amended by paragraph 15 of Schedule 3 to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c.48) and by SI 2006/1029; section 45 was previously substituted by SI 2006/1028."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c. 37. Section 70 is substituted and sections 74, 78 and 106 are amended by the provisions of the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 which are brought into force by regulation 2 of these Regulations. Section 70 was previously amended by sections 12 and 16 of and by paragraphs 1 and 17 of Schedule 2 to the Patents Act 2004 (c. 16); section 74 by paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c.48) and section 13 of the Patents Act 2004; section 78 by SI 2004/2357, paragraph 22 of Schedule 5 to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 1 to the Patents Act 2004; section 106 by section 14 of and Schedule 3 to the Patents Act 2004 and by section 59 and paragraph 23 of Part 4 of Schedule 11 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1988 c. 48. Section 253 is substituted and section 262 is amended by the provisions of the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 which are brought into force by regulation 2 of these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1994 c. 26. Section 21 is substituted and sections 52 and 54 are amended by the provisions of the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 which are brought into force by regulation 2 of these Regulations. Section 52 was previously amended by paragraphs 109 and 110 of Schedule 21 to the Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29) and SI 2016/299."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "SI 2005/2339. Regulation 2 is substituted and regulation 5A is amended by the provisions of the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 which are brought into force by regulation 2 of these Regulations. Regulation 2 of SI 2005/2339 was previously amended by SI 2006/1028, SI 2007/3378 and SI 2011/1043 and Regulation 5A was previously inserted by SI 2006/1028."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "SI 2006/1027. Regulation 6 is amended by the provisions of the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 which are brought into force by regulation 2 of these Regulations. Regulation 6 was previously amended by SI 2011/1043 and SI 2016/299."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/771/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:09:25.207862+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."
}