{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023-category-1-category-2a-and-category-2b-threshold-conditions-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023-category-1-category-2a-and-category-2b-threshold-conditions-regulations-2025/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Category 1 threshold conditions",
  "text": "(1) The Category 1 threshold conditions are met by a regulated user-to-user service where, in respect of the user-to-user part of that service, it—\n(a) (i) has an average number of monthly active United Kingdom users that exceeds 34 million, and\n(ii) uses a content recommender system, or\n(b) (i) has an average number of monthly active United Kingdom users that exceeds 7 million,\n(ii) uses a content recommender system, and\n(iii) provides a functionality for users to forward or share regulated user-generated content on the service with other users of that service.\n(2) In paragraph (1), a “content recommender system” means a system, used by the provider of a regulated user-to-user service in respect of the user-to-user part of that service, that uses algorithms which by means of machine learning or other techniques determines, or otherwise affects, the way in which regulated user-generated content of a user, whether alone or with other content, may be encountered by other users of the service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 11 to the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “Category 1 threshold conditions”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See paragraph 7 of Schedule 11 to the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “regulated user-generated content” (it has the same meaning as in section 55 of that Act)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/226/regulation/3",
    "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."
}