{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-ec-directive-regulations-2002/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-ec-directive-regulations-2002/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Non-UK service providers – restriction on application of requirements",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) To the extent that anything in these Regulations creates any new criminal offence, it shall not be punishable with imprisonment for more than two years or punishable on summary conviction with imprisonment for more than three months or with a fine of more than level 5 on the standard scale (if not calculated on a daily basis) or with a fine of more than £100 a day .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electronic Commerce (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/87), regs. 1, 3(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electronic Commerce (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/87), regs. 1, 3(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(3)-(5) omitted (7.5.2026) by virtue of The Electronic Commerce (Amendment and Consequential Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/407), regs. 1(2), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(7) omitted (7.5.2026) by virtue of The Electronic Commerce (Amendment and Consequential Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/407), regs. 1(2), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 4 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electronic Commerce (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/87), regs. 1, 3(4)(f); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "The maximum penalty allowed under paragraph 1(1)(d) of Schedule 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2013/regulation/4",
    "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."
}