# Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, Paragraph 9


(1) 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—
(a)an offence under section 1, 2, 3 or 3A;
(b)an offence of attempt or conspiracy to commit any such offence;
(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”—
(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
(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.
(2) For the purposes of the definition of “publication” in sub-paragraph (1)—
(a) an indictment or other document prepared for use in particular legal proceedings is not to be taken as coming within the definition;
(b) every relevant programme is to be taken as addressed to the public at large or to a section of the public.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/31/schedule/1/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/female-genital-mutilation-act-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-9
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