{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/return-of-cultural-objects-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/return-of-cultural-objects-regulations-1994/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/501",
  "legislation_title": "The Return of Cultural Objects Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/return-of-cultural-objects-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations “the Directive” means Directive 2014/60/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 (Recast).\n(2) Expressions used in these Regulations and in the Directive have the same meaning as in the Directive and accordingly expressions to which a meaning is assigned by Article 2 of the Directive have that meaning.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Return of Cultural Objects (Revocation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1086), regs. 1, 2(a) (with regs. 4, 5) (as amended by S.I. 2020/975, regs. 1, 2(2) and S.I. 2020/1458, regs. 1(2), 2(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1) substituted (18.12.2015) by The Return of Cultural Objects (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1926), art. 1, reg. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (18.12.2015) by The Return of Cultural Objects (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1926), art. 1, reg. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 2(3) omitted (18.12.2015) by virtue of The Return of Cultural Objects (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1926), art. 1, reg. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 2(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Return of Cultural Objects (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1458), regs. 1(3), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 2.3.1994, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/501/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:40:11.214846+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."
}