{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023-category-1-category-2a-and-category-2b-threshold-conditions-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
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  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Category 2A threshold conditions",
  "text": "The Category 2A threshold conditions are met by a search engine of a regulated search service or a combined service where it—\n(a) has an average number of monthly active United Kingdom users that exceeds 7 million, and\n(b) is not a search engine which—\n(i) only enables a user to search selected websites or databases in relation to a specific topic, theme or genre of search content, and\n(ii) is facilitated by means of an arrangement between the provider of a regulated search service or combined service with one or more entities, which relies on an application programming interface or other technical means to present search results to users.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 11 to the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “Category 2A threshold conditions”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/226/regulation/4",
    "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."
}