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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88",
  "legislation_title": "Registered Designs Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to registered designs.\n[16th December 1949]",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act restricted (retrospectively) by 1994 c. 26, s. 106(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(4); S.I. 1994/2550, art. 2; and modified (9.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3678, art. 2(1)(2), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of Board of Trade and of President of Board of Trade now exercisable concurrently by Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act reprinted as amended by Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A), s. 273, Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act extended (Isle of Man) (with modifications) (11.11.2013) by The Registered Designs (Isle of Man) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2533), art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (as amended (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/1335, art. 2, Sch. 1; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied in part (with modifications) (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Designs (International Registration of Industrial Designs) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/23), arts. 1(2), 3, Sch. 1 Pt. 1, Sch. 2 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (24.5.2024 for specified purposes, 1.1.2025 in so far as not already in force) by Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (c. 13), ss. 138(2)-(7), 339(2)(c); S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(2) (with Sch. para. 10, 20)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.1.1950 see s. 49 (2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act extends to Isle of Man see s. 47"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:19:58.992093+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."
}