{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-premium-rate-services-order-2024/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1046",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Premium Rate Services Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-premium-rate-services-order-2024",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 2005 Act” means the Gambling Act 2005;\n“the Act” means the Communications Act 2003;\n“call” means a connection established by means of a public electronic communications service allowing speech communication between two or more persons in real time;\n“charity” means—\n(a) as respects England and Wales, a body falling within the definition of a charity for the purposes of the Charities Act 2011,\n(b) as respects Northern Ireland, a body falling within the definition of a charity for the purposes of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008, or\n(c) as respects Scotland, a body entered into the Scottish Charity Register for the purposes of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005;\n“Code 15” means the code made by the PSA known as the “Code of Practice 2021 (Fifteenth edition) – Code for Premium rate services”;\n“electronic communication” means a communication for transmission by means of an electronic communications network;\n“mobile phone service” means a public electronic communications service which is provided for the purpose of communicating with others, or accessing data, by mobile phone;\n“PSA” means the Phone-paid Services Authority, a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales under company number 2398515;\n“SMS message” means a Short Message Service text message composed principally of letters or numbers that may be sent between telephone numbers allocated in accordance with a national or international numbering plan;\n“VAT” means value added tax;\n“working day” means any day other than—\n(a) Saturday or Sunday, or\n(b) a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2005 c.19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2011 c.25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2008 c.12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2005 asp.10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1971 c.80; section 1 of and Schedule 1 to that Act relate to bank holidays. Schedule 1 was amended by section 1 of the St Andrew’s Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1046/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:33.733252+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."
}