Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Terrorism Act 2006 M1;

• “article” has the meaning given in section 20(2) of the Act;

• “the Directive” means Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8th June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce) M2;

• “information society services”—

  1. (a)

     has the meaning given in Article 2(a) of the Directive (which refers to Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22nd June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations M3); and

  2. (b)

     is summarised in recital 17 of the 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”;

• “recipient of the 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;

• “record” has the meaning given in section 20(2) of the Act;

• “relevant offence” is an offence under section 1 or 2 of the Act;

• “service provider” means a person providing an information society service;

• “statement” is to be construed in accordance with section 20(6) of the Act.

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