Paragraph 6 I1

England, Wales and Northern Ireland

(1)

This paragraph applies for the purposes of this Schedule.

(2)

“Prohibited image of a child” has the same meaning as in section 62.

(3)

“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”;

and “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).

(4)

“Recipient”, in relation to a service, means any person who, for professional ends or otherwise, uses an information society service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible.

(5)

“Service provider” means a person providing an information society service.

F1(6)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 13 para. 6(6) omitted (29.7.2021) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Electronic Commerce) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/835), regs. 1, 7(2)(c)

Commencement

I1: Sch. 13 para. 6 in force at 6.4.2010 by S.I. 2010/816, art. 2, Sch. para. 16