{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2016/21",
  "legislation_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies for the purposes of this Schedule.\n(2) “Photograph or film” has the meaning given in section 52.\n(3) “Information society service” means any service normally provided—\n(a) for remuneration,\n(b) at a distance (namely, the service is provided without the parties being simultaneously present),\n(c) by electronic means (namely, the service is—\n(i) sent initially and received at its destination by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, and\n(ii) entirely transmitted, conveyed and received by wire, radio, optical means or other electromagnetic means), and\n(d) at the individual request of a recipient of services (namely, the service is provided through the transmission of data on individual request).\n(4) “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(5) “Service provider” means a person providing an information society service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 4(2) substituted (27.11.2023) by Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 19), ss. 6(4)(d), 30(2); S.R. 2023/188, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 4(3) substituted (27.11.2023) by Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 19), ss. 6(4)(e), 30(2); S.R. 2023/188, art. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/4/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:52.150204+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."
}