Paragraph 9 F1

In this Schedule—

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

• “ female genital mutilation offence ” means—

  1. (a)

     an offence under section 1, 2, 3 or 3A;

  2. (b)

     an offence of attempt or conspiracy to commit any such offence;

  3. (c)

     an offence under Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (encouraging or assisting crime) in relation to any such offence;

• “information society services”—

  1. (a)

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

  2. (b)

     is summarised in recital 17 of the E-Commerce 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”;

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• “ programme service ” has the same meaning as in the Broadcasting Act 1990 (see section 201(1) of that Act);

• “ prohibited material ” means any material the publication of which contravenes paragraph 1(2);

• “ publication ” includes any speech, writing, relevant programme or other communication (in whatever form) which is addressed to, or is accessible by, the public at large or any section of the public;

• “ recipient ”, in relation to a service, means a person who, for professional ends or otherwise, uses an information society service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible;

• “ relevant programme ” means a programme included in a programme service;

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

For the purposes of the definition of “publication” in sub-paragraph (1)—

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