{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-premium-rate-services-order-2024/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-premium-rate-services-order-2024/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Meaning of “information, connection or signposting service” (“ICSS”)",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, “information, connection or signposting service” (“ICSS”) means a premium rate service that—\n(a) includes the making available of a facility to connect a consumer by means of a call to speak to another person or to access that person’s service (other than a premium rate service),\n(b) requires the use of a relevant telephone number beginning with the digits “084”, “087”, “090” or “091”, and\n(c) is not exempt by virtue of paragraph (2).\n(2) A premium rate service is exempt by virtue of this paragraph if it is provided—\n(a) by means of a call which terminates on an electronic communications network outside of the United Kingdom,\n(b) by means of an electronic communications service which is provided by the same person making available the facility in paragraph (1)(a), or\n(c) by a person who is employed or engaged under the direction of the person providing the service to which the consumer is being connected.\n(3) In this article, “relevant telephone number” has the meaning given in article 3(8).",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}