Statutory Instruments
COPYRIGHT
RIGHTS IN DATABASES
Made
18th December 1997
Coming into force
1st January 1998
Whereas a draft of the following Regulations has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) in relation to measures relating to copyright(2) and measures relating to the prevention of unauthorised extraction of the contents of a database and of unauthorised re-utilisation of those contents(3), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) and (4) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—
1972 c. 68; by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of that Act by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51) regulations may be made under section 2(2) to implement obligations of the United Kingdom arising under the EEA Agreement.
S.I. 1993/595.
S.I. 1996/3155.