{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/schedule-14/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/schedule-14/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/50",
  "legislation_title": "Online Safety Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/14/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Serious Crime Act 2007",
  "text": "(1) The Serious Crime Act 2007 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 51A (exceptions to section 44 for encouraging or assisting suicide)—\n(a) the existing text becomes subsection (1);\n(b) after that subsection insert—\n“(2) Section 44 does not apply to an offence under section 184(1) of the Online Safety Act 2023 (offence of encouraging or assisting serious self-harm).”;\n(c) in the heading, at the end insert “or serious self-harm”.\n(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 3 (listed offences: England and Wales and Northern Ireland), after paragraph 24A insert—\n“Online Safety Act 2023\n24B An offence under section 184(1) of the Online Safety Act 2023 (encouraging or assisting serious self-harm).”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 12 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 240(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 12 in force at 31.1.2024 by S.I. 2024/31, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/schedule/14/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:44.494627+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."
}