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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/female-genital-mutilation-act-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/31",
  "legislation_title": "Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/female-genital-mutilation-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n...\n“ 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);\n“ female genital mutilation offence ” means—\n(a)an offence under section 1, 2, 3 or 3A;\n(b)an offence of attempt or conspiracy to commit any such offence;\n(c)an offence under Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (encouraging or assisting crime) in relation to any such offence;\n“information society services”—\n(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\n(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”;\n...\n“ programme service ” has the same meaning as in the Broadcasting Act 1990 (see section 201(1) of that Act);\n“ prohibited material ” means any material the publication of which contravenes paragraph 1(2);\n“ 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;\n“ 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;\n“ relevant programme ” means a programme included in a programme service;\n“ service provider ” means a person providing an information society service.\n(2) For the purposes of the definition of “publication” in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) an indictment or other document prepared for use in particular legal proceedings is not to be taken as coming within the definition;\n(b) every relevant programme is to be taken as addressed to the public at large or to a section of the public.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 inserted (3.5.2015) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), ss. 71(2), 88(4) (with s. 86(15))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 9(1) omitted (29.7.2021) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Electronic Commerce) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/835), regs. 1, 5(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 9(1) omitted (29.7.2021) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Electronic Commerce) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/835), regs. 1, 5(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 9(3) omitted (29.7.2021) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Electronic Commerce) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/835), regs. 1, 5(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/31/schedule/1/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:02.022803+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."
}