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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificates-regulations-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2411",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificates-regulations-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Patents\nMade 8th September 2014\nLaid before Parliament 10th September 2014\nComing into force 1st October 2014\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to intellectual property (including both registered and unregistered rights).\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations under the powers conferred by that section as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act.\nThe Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in that section and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for the reference to Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6th May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products to be construed as a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), section 3(3) and Part 1 of the Schedule."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/608."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c.68; paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 28 and amended by the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), section 3(3) and Part 1 of the Schedule."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No L152, 16.6.2009, p.1."
    }
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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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