{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-1995/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-1995/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2912",
  "legislation_title": "The Registered Designs Rules 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-1995",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Registered Designs Act 1949 and “section” means a section of the Act;\n“convention application” means an application in the United Kingdom under section 14;\n“Journal” means the Official Journal (Patents) published by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks under the Patents Act 1977;\n“register” means the register of designs kept under section 17;\n“specimen” means an article with the design applied to it;\n“textile article” means textile and plastics piece goods, handkerchiefs, shawls and such other classes of articles of a similar character as the registrar may from time to time decide, for which the protection required is limited to features of pattern and ornament only;\n“United Kingdom” includes the Isle of Man.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "subst",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3950",
      "affecting_title": "The Registered Designs (Amendment) Rules 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2912/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:58:32.197434+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."
}