{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/on-demand-programme-services-tier-1-services-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/on-demand-programme-services-tier-1-services-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/235",
  "legislation_title": "The On-demand Programme Services (Tier 1 Services) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/on-demand-programme-services-tier-1-services-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of “user”",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, a “user” of an on-demand programme service, or a non-UK on-demand programme service, means a person who uses the service to view a programme selected from among the programmes included in the service.\n(2) But a person who uses an on-demand programme service, or a non-UK on-demand programme service, to view a programme selected from among the programmes included in the service by means of a user-to-user service is not a user of the on-demand programme service or non-UK on-demand programme service.\n(3) The exception in paragraph (2) does not apply to a person who uses an on-demand programme service that is being used by a public service broadcaster, other than the BBC, to contribute to the fulfilment of its public service remit.\n(4) In these Regulations—\n(a) “United Kingdom user” means a user of the service who is in the United Kingdom;\n(b) “user-to-user service” has the same meaning as in section 3(1) of the Online Safety Act 2023.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 368HA(3) of the Communications Act 2003 for the meaning of “public service remit” and for the public service broadcasters required to fulfil a public service remit."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2023 c. 50."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/235/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:04:53.932186+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."
}