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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1949/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1949/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/87",
  "legislation_title": "Patents Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1949",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to patents.\n[16th December 1949]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act restricted (retrospectively) by 1994 c. 26, s. 106(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(4); S.I. 1994/2550, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended (8.2.1997) by S.I. 1996/3120, reg. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act extended (2. 1. 1993) by S.I. 1992/3091, regs. 1(1),5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Functions of Board of Trade and of President of Board of Trade now exercisable concurrently by Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded by British Telecommunications Act 1981 (c. 38, SIF 96), s. 88 Sch. 5 para. 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 107(2); Act wholly in force at 1st January 1950."
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  "provenance": {
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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."
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