{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1938-repealed-31101994/section-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/1-2/22",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Marks Act 1938 (repealed 31.10.1994)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1938-repealed-31101994",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Saving for use of name, address, or description of goods.",
  "text": "No registration of a trade mark shall interfere with—\n(a) any bona fide use by a person of his own name or of the name of his place of business, or of the name, or of the name of the place of business, of any of his predecessors in business; or\n(b) the use by any person of any bona fide description of the character or quality of his goods, not being a description that would be likely to be taken as importing any such reference as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section four, or in paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section thirty-seven, of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/1-2/22/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:33:44.496031+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."
}