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opl-uk-3.0
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United Kingdom Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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United Kingdom Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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Permissive
owner
Parliament of United Kingdom
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https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/
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OPL-UK-3.0
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United Kingdom Open Parliament Licence v3.0

Open Parliament Licence

You are encouraged to use and re-use the information that
is available under this licence freely and flexibly, with
only a few conditions. Using information under this licence

Use of copyright and database right material made
available under this licence (the ‘information’) indicates
your acceptance of the terms and conditions below.

The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free,
perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the
information subject to the conditions below.

This licence does not affect your freedom under
fair dealing or fair use or any other copyright
or database right exceptions and limitations.

You are free to:
    * copy, publish, distribute and transmit the information
    * adapt the information 
    * exploit the information commercially and non-commercially, 
    for example, by combining it with other information, 
    or by  including it in your own product or application

You must (where you do any of the above):
    * acknowledge the source of the information in your
    product or application by including the following
    attribution statement and, where possible, provide a
    link to this licence: Contains Parliamentary information
    licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

These are important conditions of this licence and
if you fail to comply with them the rights granted to
you under this licence, or any similar licence granted
by the Licensor, will end automatically. 

Exemptions

This licence does not cover the use of:
    * personal data in the information;
    * information that has neither been published nor disclosed
    under information access legislation (including the 
    Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or
    with the consent of the Licensor;
    * the Royal Arms and the Crowned Portcullis;
    * third party rights the Licensor is not authorised to license; 
    * information subject to other intellectual property rights,
    including patents, trademarks, and design rights

Non-endorsment

This licence does not grant you any right to use the
information in a way that suggests any official status or
that the Licensor endorses you or your use of the Information.

No warranty

The information is licensed ‘as is’ and the
Licensor excludes all representations, warranties,
obligations and liabilities in relation to the
information to the maximum extent permitted by law.
The Licensor is not liable for any errors or omissions in
the information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury
or damage of any kind caused by its use. The Licensor does
not guarantee the continued supply of the information.

Governing law

This licence is governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Definitions

In this licence, the terms below have the following meanings:

‘Information’ means information protected by copyright
or by database right (for example, literary and
artistic works, content, data and source code)
offered for use under the terms of this licence.

‘Information Provider’ means either House of Parliament.

‘Licensor’ means—
(a) in relation to copyright, the Speaker of the House of
Commons and the Clerk of the Parliaments representing
the House of Commons and House of Lords respectively, and
(b) in relation to database right, the Corporate
Officer of the House of Commons and the Corporate
Officer of the House of Lords respectively.

‘Use’ means doing any act which is restricted by copyright
or database right, whether in the original medium or in any
other medium, and includes without limitation distributing,
copying, adapting and modifying as may be technically
necessary to use it in a different mode or format.

‘You’ means the natural or legal person, or body of persons
corporate or incorporate, acquiring rights under this licence.

About the Open Parliament Licence

This is version 3.0 of the Open Parliament Licence. The
Licensor may, from time to time, issue new versions of the
Open Parliament Licence. However, you may continue to use
information licensed under this version should you wish to do so.

The information licensed under the Open Parliament
Licence includes Parliamentary information in which
Crown copyright subsists. Further context, best practice
and guidance relating to the re-use of public sector
information can be found in the UK Government Licensing
Framework section on The National Archives website.