{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/18",
  "legislation_title": "Data (Use and Access) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Other defined terms",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“application programming interface” means a facility for allowing software to make use of facilities contained in other software;\n“dashboard service” means an electronic communications service by means of which information may be requested by and provided to a person;\n“digital content” means data which is produced and supplied in digital form;\n“electronic communications service” has the meaning given by section 32 of the Communications Act 2003;\n“goods” includes water, gas and electricity (however supplied);\n“micro business” has the meaning given by section 33 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, read with any regulations under that section;\n“primary legislation” means—\n(a)an Act of Parliament;\n(b)an Act of the Scottish Parliament;\n(c)a Measure or Act of Senedd Cymru;\n(d)Northern Ireland legislation;\n“processing” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(4) of that Act) and related terms are to be interpreted accordingly;\n“public authority” means a person whose functions—\n(a)are of a public nature, or\n(b)include functions of that nature;\n“small business” has the meaning given by section 33 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, read with any regulations under that section;\n“specified” means specified, or of a description specified, by regulations under this Part, or in exercise of a power conferred by such regulations, except to the extent otherwise provided in this Part;\n“third party recipient” means—\n(a)in section 3, a third party in relation to customer data (see section 2(2)),\n(b)in sections 4 and 5, a third party recipient in relation to business data (see section 4(2)), and\n(c)in other sections, a third party recipient in relation to customer data or business data (see sections 2(2) and 4(2)).\n(2) In this Part, references to doing something “in the course of a business” include doing something in the course of—\n(a) a trade, craft or profession, or\n(b) any other undertaking carried on for gain or reward.\n(3) In this Part—\n(a) references to making arrangements include producing model arrangements,\n(b) references to managing a facility (or an interface that is a facility) include operating, or overseeing the operation, of a facility,\n(c) references to managing a service (or an interface that is a service) include providing, or overseeing the provision of, a service, and\n(d) references to managing standards or arrangements include assisting people to use them or overseeing how they are used.\n(4) In this Part, references to regulations made under subsection (3) of section 4 or any of sections 5 to 21 (and references which include such regulations) include regulations made under section 4(4)(c) or (d) which make provision that could be made under the other subsection or section.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 142(1)(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at 20.8.2025 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2025/904, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:53.494367+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}