{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023/schedule-15/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023/schedule-15/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/32",
  "legislation_title": "National Security Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Recognised news publishers",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions do not apply to a recognised news publisher—\n(a) section 69(3) (requirement to register foreign influence arrangements);\n(b) section 71(2) or (3) (offence of carrying out activities under unregistered foreign influence arrangement);\n(c) section 78(2) (offence of carrying out political influence activities tainted by false information).\n(2) The following provisions do not apply to a person who is not a recognised news publisher, where the foreign influence arrangement in question is a news-related foreign influence arrangement—\n(a) section 69(3) (requirement to register foreign influence arrangements);\n(b) section 71(2) or (3) (offence of carrying out activities under unregistered foreign influence arrangement);\n(c) section 78(2) (offence of carrying out political influence activities tainted by false information).\n(3) A “news-related foreign influence arrangement” is a foreign influence arrangement made between a person and a foreign power who is a recognised news publisher where the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the arrangement is the publication of news-related material.\n(4) In this paragraph “news-related material”, “publish”, and “recognised news publisher” have the meaning given by paragraph 5.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see 100(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 4 in force at 1.7.2025 by S.I. 2025/674, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/32/schedule/15/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:52:07.318384+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."
}