{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-premium-rate-services-order-2024/article-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-premium-rate-services-order-2024/article-49.json",
  "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/49",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Requirements for controlled PRS provided to children",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to a merchant who provides a controlled PRS to a child.\n(2) The merchant must ensure that the service is not provided in a manner which exploits the credulity, inexperience or sense of loyalty of any child.\n(3) The merchant must also not impose on the consumer a charge for an amount exceeding—\n(a) where the service is not provided under a subscription contract, £5 for a single transaction, up to a total charge of £20 per month irrespective of the number of transactions, and\n(b) where the service is provided under a subscription contract, £5 per month.\n(4) References to amounts in pounds sterling in paragraph (3) are inclusive of VAT.\n(5) In this article—\n“child” has the meaning given in article 23(2);\n“subscription contract” has the meaning given in article 8(5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1046/article/49",
    "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."
}