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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-ec-directive-extension-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1178",
  "legislation_title": "The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) (Extension) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-ec-directive-extension-regulations-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2013) (“the E-Commerce Regulations”) transpose into national law Articles 3, 5, 6, 7(1), 10 to 14, 18(2) and 20 of 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) (“the Directive”). However, regulation 3(2) of the E-Commerce Regulations provides that those regulations do not apply in relation to any Act passed on or after the date on which they were made, or in exercise of a power to legislate after that date (30th July 2002), so that they do not have prospective effect.\nThese Regulations provide that the E-Commerce Regulations apply to the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The effect of these Regulations is that the Act must be read in a way that is compatible with the requirements of the E-Commerce Regulations.\nThese Regulations also remove a defect in the drafting of regulation 3(2) of the E-Commerce Regulations by inserting words that were omitted in error.\nA transposition note setting out how the main elements of the Directive are transposed into law was placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament when the E-Commerce Regulations were laid. Copies are also available from the International Communications Unit, Department of Trade and Industry, Bay 202, 151 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SS.",
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  "version": "current",
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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."
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