{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-online-safety-act-2023-category-1-category-2a-and-category-2b-threshold-conditions-regulations-2025/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348267174",
  "legislation_title": "The Online Safety Act 2023 (Category 1, Category 2A and Category 2B Threshold Conditions) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-online-safety-act-2023-category-1-category-2a-and-category-2b-threshold-conditions-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Category 2B threshold conditions",
  "text": "The Category 2B threshold conditions are met by a regulated user-to-user service where, in respect of the user-to-user part of that service, it—\n(a) has an average number of monthly active United Kingdom users that exceeds 3 million, and\n(b) provides a functionality for users to send direct messages to other users of the same service which is designed so that messages cannot be encountered by any other users of that service unless further action is taken by the user who sent the message or a user who received the message.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 11 to the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “Category 2B threshold conditions”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348267174/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:54.129393+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."
}