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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-secrets-enforcement-etc-regulations-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/597",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-secrets-enforcement-etc-regulations-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Intellectual Property\nMade 15th May 2018\nLaid before Parliament 18th May 2018\nComing into force 9th June 2018\nThe Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to intellectual property (including both registered and unregistered rights).\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1)(a) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), section 3(3) and Schedule, Part I."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/608."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/597/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}