{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977/section-131",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977/section-131.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/37",
  "legislation_title": "Patents Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977",
  "path": "section/131",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "131",
  "heading": "Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "In the application of this Act to Northern Ireland—\n(a) “enactment” includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly;\n(b) any reference to a government department includes a reference to a Department of the Government of Northern Ireland;\n(c) any reference to the Crown includes a reference to the Crown in right of Her Majesty’s Government in Northern Ireland;\n(d) any reference to the Companies Act 1985 includes a reference to the corresponding enactments in force in Northern Ireland; and\n(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(f) any reference to a claimant includes a reference to a plaintiff.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 9, SIF 27), s. 30, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 131(e) repealed (31.1.1997) by 1996 c. 23, s. 107(2), Sch. 4 (with Pt. I); S.I. 1996/3146, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 131(f) inserted (1.1.2005) by Patents Act 2004 (c. 16), s. 17(1), Sch. 2 para. 28; S.I. 2004/3205, art. 2(k) (with art. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/37/section/131",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:17.133485+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."
}