# Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, Paragraph 9: Interpretation


(1) In this Schedule—
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“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);
“information society services”—
(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
(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”;
“non-UK service provider” means a service provider established in an EEA state...;
“offence of forced marriage” means an offence under section 121;
“programme service” has the same meaning as in the Broadcasting Act 1990 (see section 201(1) of that Act);
“prohibited material” means any material the publication of which contravenes paragraph 1(2);
“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;
“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;
“relevant programme” means a programme included in a programme service;
“service provider” means a person providing an information society service.
(2) For the purposes of the definition of “publication” in sub-paragraph (1)—
(a) an indictment or other document prepared for use in particular legal proceedings is not to be taken as coming within the definition;
(b) every relevant programme is to be taken as addressed to the public at large or to a section of the public.
(3) For the purposes of the definition of “non-UK service provider” in sub-paragraph (1)—
(a) a service provider is established in a particular EEA state if the service provider—
(i) effectively pursues an economic activity using a fixed establishment in that EEA state for an indefinite period, and
(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;
(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;
(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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/12/schedule/6A/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/anti-social-behaviour-crime-and-policing-act-2014/schedule-6A/paragraph-9
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