# The Glasgow Commonwealth Games Act 2008 (Ticket Touting Offence) (Exceptions for Use of Internet etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2012, Regulation 4: Information society services: exception for mere conduit


(1) Where an information society service provider provides so much of an information society service as consists in—
(a) the provision of access to a communication network; or
(b) the transmission in a communication network of information provided by the recipient of the service,
anything done by the provider in providing that part of the service is not capable of constituting the touting offence.
(2) But paragraph (1) applies only if the provider does not—
(a) initiate the transmission;
(b) select the recipient of the transmission; or
(c) select or modify the information contained in the transmission.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the provision of access to a communication network, and the transmission of information in a communication network, includes the automatic, intermediate and transient storage of the information transmitted so far as the storage is solely for the purpose of carrying out the transmission in the network.
(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply if the information is stored for longer than is reasonably necessary for the transmission.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2012/9780111018002/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-glasgow-commonwealth-games-act-2008-ticket-touting-offence-exceptions-for-use-of-internet-etc-scotland-regulations-2012/regulation-4
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