{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/section-201",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/section-201.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/50",
  "legislation_title": "Online Safety Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023",
  "path": "section/201",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "201",
  "heading": "Defences",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where a person relies on a defence under section 109 or 110.\n(2) If evidence is adduced which is sufficient to raise an issue with respect to the defence, the court must assume that the defence is satisfied unless the prosecution proves beyond reasonable doubt that it is not.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 201 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 240(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 201 in force at 10.1.2024 for specified purposes by S.I. 2023/1420, reg. 2(z25)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 201 in force at 7.4.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/262, reg. 2(1)(g)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/201",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:51:47.656361+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."
}