{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-premium-rate-services-order-2024/article-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Meaning of “subscription service”",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, a “subscription service” means a service mentioned in paragraph (2) provided by means other than a call and to which either paragraph (3) or (4) (or both) applies.\n(2) The services are—\n(a) a children’s service,\n(b) a professional advice service,\n(c) a recurring donation service,\n(d) a sexual content service,\n(e) a society lottery service, or\n(f) any other threshold service, except—\n(i) a competition or voting service,\n(ii) a remote gambling service, or\n(iii) a virtual chat service.\n(3) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) the provision of content, or the making available of a facility, to a consumer will be on a continuing basis for a specified or indefinite period under a subscription contract, and\n(b) the consumer will automatically incur a charge, or recurring charges, for the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (a).\n(4) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) the provision of content, or the making available of a facility, to a consumer will be free of charge, or at a charge specified in a subscription contract, for a specified period in the contract, and\n(b) the consumer will become automatically liable for a charge after that period (including where the merchant has an option to impose a charge or a higher charge after the end of the period).\n(5) In this article—\n“children’s service” has the meaning given in article 23(2);\n“competition or voting service” has the meaning given in article 41(1);\n“professional advice service” has the meaning given in article 51(3);\n“recurring donation service” has the meaning given in article 28(6);\n“remote gambling service” has the meaning given in article 52(4);\n“society lottery service” has the meaning given in article 53(4);\n“subscription contract” means a contract under which a merchant provides, or agrees to provide, a subscription service to a consumer and the consumer pays, or agrees to pay, the charge to be imposed for the provision of that service;\n“virtual chat service” has the meaning given in article 31(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/8",
    "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."
}