{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023-category-1-category-2a-and-category-2b-threshold-conditions-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023-category-1-category-2a-and-category-2b-threshold-conditions-regulations-2025/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/226",
  "legislation_title": "The Online Safety Act 2023 (Category 1, Category 2A and Category 2B Threshold Conditions) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023-category-1-category-2a-and-category-2b-threshold-conditions-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations “active United Kingdom user” means—\n(a) in relation to a regulated user-to-user service, any United Kingdom user who has accessed the user-to-user part of that service;\n(b) in relation to the search engine of a regulated search service or the search engine of a combined service, any United Kingdom user who has encountered search content in or via search results of that regulated search service or combined service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See sections 3 and 4 of the Online Safety Act 2023 (c. 50) for the meaning of “user-to-user service” and “regulated user-to-user service”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 227 of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “user” and “United Kingdom user”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 229 of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “search engine”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See sections 3 and 4 of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of a “search service” and a “regulated search service”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See section 4(7) of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of a “combined service”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "See section 236(1) of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “encounter”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "See paragraph 7 of Schedule 11 to the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “search content”; it has the same meaning as in Part 3 of that Act (see section 57(2)). See also section 236 of that Act for the meaning of “content”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "See paragraph 7 of Schedule 11 to the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “search content”; it has the same meaning as section 57 of that Act, which includes the meaning of “search results” in section 57(3) and the meaning of “via search results” in section 57(5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/226/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:50.287802+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."
}