{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-23/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-23/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/13",
  "legislation_title": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024",
  "path": "schedule/23/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The business address and, if different, the service address of the trader, and any business email address and business telephone number of the trader.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) and paragraph 17—\n“business address”, in relation to a person, means—\n(a) where the person is a body corporate, the address of its registered or principal office,\n(b) where the person is a firm that is not a body corporate, the address of the principal office of the firm,\n(c) in a case where neither paragraphs (a) or (b) apply, the address of the person’s principal place of business;\n“business email address”, in relation to a person, means any email address used by the trader for conducting business;\n“business telephone number”, in relation to a person, means any telephone number used by the trader for conducting business;\n“service address”, in relation to a person, means the address at which the person will accept service of documents.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 23 para. 16 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/23/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:09.592730+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."
}