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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-and-international-headquarters-application-of-law-order-1999/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-and-international-headquarters-application-of-law-order-1999/schedule-4/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1736",
  "legislation_title": "The Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visiting-forces-and-international-headquarters-application-of-law-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Use of patented inventions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the power conferred by section 55(1) of the Patents Act 1977 on a government department, or person authorised in writing by a government department, in relation to the use of patented inventions for the services of the Crown shall be exercisable for the purposes of a visiting force or headquarters to the extent that it would be exercisable if the visiting force or headquarters were a part of any of the home forces.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not have effect to authorise—\n(a) the doing of any act falling within section 55(1)(a)(ii) or (c) of the Patents Act 1977, or\n(b) the doing of anything which is for a purpose relating to the production or use of atomic energy or research into matters connected therewith.\n(3) In relation to the exercise of the powers conferred by sub-paragraph (1), sections 55 to 58 of the Patents Act 1977 (apart from section 56(2) to (4)) shall have effect with any reference in those provisions to the use of a patented invention for the services of the Crown being construed as a reference to the use of such an invention for the purposes of a visiting force or headquarters.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1736/schedule/4/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:32:30.431552+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."
}