{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificate-for-medicinal-products-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificate-for-medicinal-products-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3091",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificate-for-medicinal-products-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the 1977 Act” means the Patents Act 1977;\n“certificate” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 1(d) of the EC Regulation;\n“the court” has the same meaning as it has in the 1977 Act; and\n“the EC Regulation” means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1768/92 of 18th June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products and any reference in these Regulations to an article followed by a number is a reference to the article so numbered in the EC Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L182, 2.7.92, page 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3091/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:09:58.370046+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."
}