{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-regulations-2000/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-regulations-2000/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2037",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Patents Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on the day after the date on which they are made (“the commencement date”).\n(2) In these Regulations “the Act” means the Patents Act 1977.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2037/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:04.281000+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."
}