{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/section-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023/section-57.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/50",
  "legislation_title": "Online Safety Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/online-safety-act-2023",
  "path": "section/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "“Search content”, “search results” etc",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of this Part.\n(2) “Search content” means content that may be encountered in or via search results of a search service, except—\n(a) paid-for advertisements (see section 236),\n(b) content on the website of a recognised news publisher (see section 56), and\n(c) content that—\n(i) reproduces in full an article or written item that was originally published by a recognised news publisher (and is not a screenshot or photograph of that article or item or of part of it),\n(ii) is video or audio content that was originally published or broadcast by a recognised news publisher, and is not a clipped or edited form of such content (unless it is the recognised news publisher who has clipped or edited it), or\n(iii) is a link to an article or item within sub-paragraph (i) or to content within sub-paragraph (ii).\n(3) “Search results”, in relation to a search service, means content presented to a user of the service by operation of the search engine in response to a search request made by the user.\n(4) “Search” means search by any means, including by input of text or images or by speech, and references to a search request are to be construed accordingly.\n(5) In subsection (2), the reference to encountering content “via search results”—\n(a) is to encountering content as a result of interacting with search results (for example, by clicking on them);\n(b) does not include a reference to encountering content as a result of subsequent interactions with an internet service other than the search service.\n(6) In this section references to a search service include references to a user-to-user service that includes a search engine.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 57 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 240(4)(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/57",
    "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."
}