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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-defamation-operators-of-websites-regulations-2013/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111104620",
  "legislation_title": "The Defamation (Operators of Websites) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-defamation-operators-of-websites-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Response to notice of complaint: initial steps",
  "text": "(1) Where the operator has no means of contacting the poster paragraph 2 does not apply and the operator must, within 48 hours of receiving a notice of complaint, remove the statement from the locations on the website which were specified in the notice of complaint.\n(2) The operator is not to be taken as having a means of contacting the poster unless the means available to the operator include private electronic communication (for example electronic mail or other means of private electronic messaging).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111104620/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:14:57.659674+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."
}