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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-act-2014/schedule-6A/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/12",
  "legislation_title": "Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/6A/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n...\n“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);\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“non-UK service provider” means a service provider established in an EEA state...;\n“offence of forced marriage” means an offence under section 121;\n“programme service” has the same meaning as in the Broadcasting Act 1990 (see section 201(1) of that Act);\n“prohibited material” means any material the publication of which contravenes paragraph 1(2);\n“publication” includes any speech, writing, relevant programme or other communication (in whatever form) which is addressed to, or is accessible by, the public at large or any section of the public;\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“relevant programme” means a programme included in a programme service;\n“service provider” means a person providing an information society service.\n(2) For the purposes of the definition of “publication” in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) an indictment or other document prepared for use in particular legal proceedings is not to be taken as coming within the definition;\n(b) every relevant programme is to be taken as addressed to the public at large or to a section of the public.\n(3) For the purposes of the definition of “non-UK service provider” in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) a service provider is established in a particular EEA state if the service provider—\n(i) effectively pursues an economic activity using a fixed establishment in that EEA state for an indefinite period, and\n(ii) is a national of an EEA state or a company or firm mentioned in Article 54 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;\n(b) the presence or use in a particular place of equipment or other technical means of providing an information society service does not, of itself, constitute the establishment of a service provider;\n(c) where it cannot be determined from which of a number of establishments a given information society service is provided, that service is to be regarded as provided from the establishment at the centre of the service provider’s activities relating to that service.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6A para. 9(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/742), regs. 1, 126(3)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6A para. 9(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/742), regs. 1, 126(3)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6A para. 9(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/742), regs. 1, 126(3)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6A para. 9(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/742), regs. 1, 126(3)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6A para. 9(3)(a)(i) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/742), regs. 1, 126(3)(b)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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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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