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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1352",
  "legislation_title": "The Online Safety Act 2023 (Priority Offences) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS\nMade 18th December 2025\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 222(3) of the Online Safety Act 2023.\nThe Secretary of State considers it appropriate to add to Schedule 7 to that Act the offences set out in regulation 2(2) and 2(3) on the ground set out in section 222(4) of that Act.\nIn accordance with section 225(1)(k) of that Act, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2023 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule 7 was amended by regulation 2 of S.I. 2024/1188."
    }
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  "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."
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