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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002/schedule-11B/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/32",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/11B/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“information society services”—\n(a)has the meaning given in Article 2(a) of the E-Commerce Directive (which refers to Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations), and\n(b)is summarised in recital 17 of the E-Commerce Directive as covering “any service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, and at the individual request of a recipient of a service”;\n“recipient”, in relation to a service, means any person who, for professional ends or otherwise, uses an information society service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible;\n“service provider” means a person providing an information society service.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 11B inserted (1.10.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), s. 82(3), Sch. 4; S.I. 2012/2213, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 11B para. 7(2) omitted (3.3.2021) by virtue of The Electronic Commerce Directive (Education, Adoption and Children) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/222), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}