{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/schedule-3/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/schedule-3/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/50",
  "legislation_title": "Online Safety Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Application of paragraphs 16 to 20",
  "text": "(1) Paragraphs 16 to 20 make provision about the timing of assessments in the case of a regulated user-to-user service which includes a pre-existing Part 4B service within the definition in paragraph (b) of paragraph 7(1).\n(2) In sub-paragraph (3) and paragraphs 16 to 20—\n(a) “the regulated service” means the regulated user-to-user service, and\n(b) “the Part 4B part” means the pre-existing Part 4B service which is included in the regulated service.\n(3) If the effect of Part 1 or paragraph 6 of this Schedule is that the period within which the first illegal content risk assessment, CAA or section 15(2) assessment of the regulated service must be completed begins on a day before the assessment start day—\n(a) the time for carrying out the assessment in question in relation to the Part 4B part is extended as set out in paragraph 16, 17 or 18 (whichever applies),\n(b) Part 1 and paragraph 6 apply as set out in paragraph 19, and\n(c) paragraph 5 applies as set out in paragraph 20.\n(4) But paragraphs 16 to 20 do not apply if the service ceases to be a regulated user-to-user service on the assessment start day.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 15 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 240(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 15 in force at 10.1.2024 by S.I. 2023/1420, reg. 2(z35)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/schedule/3/paragraph/15",
    "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."
}