# The Electronic Commerce Directive (Terrorism Act 2006) Regulations 2007, Regulation 7: Exception for hosting


(1) A service provider is not capable of being guilty of a relevant offence in respect of anything done in the course of providing so much of an information society service as consists in the storage of information provided by a recipient of the service if—
(a) the service provider did not know when the information was provided that it was unlawfully terrorism-related; or
(b) upon obtaining actual knowledge that the information was unlawfully terrorism-related, the service provider expeditiously removed the information or disabled access to it.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), information is unlawfully terrorism-related if it is constituted by a statement, or contained in an article or record, which is unlawfully terrorism-related by virtue of section 3(7) of the Act.
(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply if the recipient of the service is acting under the authority or control of the service provider.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1550/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-directive-terrorism-act-2006-regulations-2007/regulation-7
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