{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-fees-rules-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-fees-rules-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/889",
  "legislation_title": "The Registered Designs (Fees) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-fees-rules-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Designs\nMade 5th September 2016\nLaid before Parliament 7th September 2016\nComing into force 1st October 2016\nThe Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 36 and 40 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 and of the power conferred by the Department of Trade and Industry (Fees) Order 1988 .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1949 c.88; section 36 was amended by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c.48), Schedule 3, paragraph 26; S.I. 2001/3949, regulation 9(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 11; the Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c.18), section 12(3); section 40 was amended by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c.48), Schedule 3, paragraph 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/93; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/1473, 2011/1043. See the matters specified in Schedule 1, Part III and Schedule 2, Part I and Part II to that Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules applied (31.12.2020) by The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 5 para. 8; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/889/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:20.514438+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."
}