{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-online-safety-act-2023-qualifying-worldwide-revenue-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-online-safety-act-2023-qualifying-worldwide-revenue-regulations-2025/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348273113",
  "legislation_title": "The Online Safety Act 2023 (Qualifying Worldwide Revenue) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-online-safety-act-2023-qualifying-worldwide-revenue-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation: revenue that is referable to a regulated service",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies for the purposes of Parts 2 and 3.\n(2) An amount of revenue counts as “referable” to a regulated service only if it arises in connection with provision of those parts of the regulated service listed in paragraph (3) (the “relevant parts”).\n(3) The relevant parts of a regulated service are—\n(a) parts where regulated user-generated content may be encountered (in the case of user-to-user services and combined services);\n(b) parts where search content may be encountered (in the case of search services and combined services); and\n(c) parts where regulated provider pornographic content may be encountered (in the case of a service within section 80(2) of the Act).\n(4) Where revenue comprises amounts arising partly in connection with provision of relevant parts of a regulated service and partly in connection with other things, it is to be apportioned on a just and reasonable basis.\n(5) Provision of relevant parts of a regulated service means their provision anywhere in the world.\n(6) Circumstances where revenue arises in connection with provision of relevant parts of a regulated service include (but are not limited to) those where amounts are generated as a result of—\n(a) any advertising (including via paid-for advertisements); and\n(b) the supply of goods or other services.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Regulated service” is defined in section 4(4) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Regulated user-generated content” is defined in section 55(2) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "“Encounter” is defined in section 236(1) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "“User-to-user service” is defined in section 3(1) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "“Combined service” is defined in section 4(7) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "“Search content” is defined in section 57(2) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "“Search service” is defined in section 3(4) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "“Regulated provider pornographic content” is defined in section 79(3) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "“Paid-for advertisement” is defined in section 236(1) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348273113/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:57.964481+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."
}