# The Regulation of Premium Rate Services Order 2024, Article 2: General interpretation


In this Order—
“the 2005 Act” means the Gambling Act 2005;
“the Act” means the Communications Act 2003;
“call” means a connection established by means of a public electronic communications service allowing speech communication between two or more persons in real time;
“charity” means—
(a) as respects England and Wales, a body falling within the definition of a charity for the purposes of the Charities Act 2011,
(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
(c) as respects Scotland, a body entered into the Scottish Charity Register for the purposes of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005;
“Code 15” means the code made by the PSA known as the “Code of Practice 2021 (Fifteenth edition) – Code for Premium rate services”;
“electronic communication” means a communication for transmission by means of an electronic communications network;
“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;
“PSA” means the Phone-paid Services Authority, a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales under company number 2398515;
“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;
“VAT” means value added tax;
“working day” means any day other than—
(a) Saturday or Sunday, or
(b) a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of the United Kingdom.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1046/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-premium-rate-services-order-2024/article-2
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