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Article 23 Promoting and marketing services to children

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

A PRS provider must not offer a children’s service, unless any promotion and marketing for such a service specifies—

(a)

the age requirements (if any) applicable for the use of the service in question, and

(b)

that, if the consumer is not the bill-payer, the consumer must obtain the bill-payer’s permission before using the service.

(2)

In this article—

  • “bill” means the information issued, or made available, by an originating communications provider to a customer about the charges levied and due for payment (or, as the case may be, the debits and credits applied to the customer’s account) for providing an electronic communications service by means of which the service in question is provided;

  • “bill-payer” means the customer to whom a bill is issued or made available;

  • “child” means a person under the age of 16;

  • “children’s service” means a threshold service that includes—

    1. (a)

      the provision of content, or

    2. (b)

      the making available of a facility,

    that is aimed at children or could reasonably be expected to appeal to a child;

  • “originating communications provider” has the meaning given in article 14(7).