{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-ec-directive-regulations-2002/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-ec-directive-regulations-2002/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2013",
  "legislation_title": "The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-ec-directive-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Notice for the purposes of actual knowledge",
  "text": "In determining whether a service provider has actual knowledge for the purposes of regulations 18(b)(v) and 19(a)(i), a court shall take into account all matters which appear to it in the particular circumstances to be relevant and, among other things, shall have regard to—\n(a) whether a service provider has received a notice through a means of contact made available in accordance with regulation 6(1)(c), and\n(b) the extent to which any notice includes—\n(i) the full name and address of the sender of the notice;\n(ii) details of the location of the information in question; and\n(iii) details of the unlawful nature of the activity or information in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 applied (31.7.2017 for specified purposes) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), ss. 14(5), 118(6) (with s. 30(3)); S.I. 2017/765, reg. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:51:16.277351+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."
}