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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-trade-marks-world-trade-organisation-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-trade-marks-world-trade-organisation-regulations-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1899",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents and Trade Marks (World Trade Organisation) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-trade-marks-world-trade-organisation-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the 1977 Act” means the Patents Act 1977;\n“the 1994 Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1994;\n“the 1995 rules” means the Patent Rules 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2093 as amended by S.I. 1999/1092."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1899/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:18:15.516052+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."
}