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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abusive-behaviour-and-sexual-harm-scotland-act-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "asp/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016",
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  "number": "4",
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  "text": "(1) In this schedule—\n“information society services”—\n(a)has the meaning given in Article 2(a) of the E-Commerce Directive (which refers to Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations), and\n(b)is summarised in recital 17 of the E-Commerce Directive as covering “any service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, and at the individual request of a recipient of a service”,\n“recipient”, in relation to a service, means a person who, for professional ends or otherwise, uses an information society service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible,\n“service provider” means a person providing an information society service.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), “the E-Commerce Directive” means Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 in force at 3.7.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/183, reg. 2(c)"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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