{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) “Prohibited item” means an item within section 69(1).\n(2) “Information society services”—\n(a) has the meaning given in Article 2(a) of the E-Commerce Directive (which refers to Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations), and\n(b) is summarised in recital 17 of the E-Commerce Directive as covering “any service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, and at the individual request of a recipient of a service”.\n(3) “The E-Commerce Directive” means Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce).\n(4) “Recipient”, in relation to a service, means a person who, for professional ends or otherwise, uses an information society service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible.\n(5) “Service provider” means a person providing an information society service.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1(6) omitted (29.7.2021) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Electronic Commerce) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/835), regs. 1, 9(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1(7) omitted (29.7.2021) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Electronic Commerce) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/835), regs. 1, 9(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1(8) omitted (29.7.2021) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Electronic Commerce) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/835), regs. 1, 9(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 3.5.2015 by S.I. 2015/820, reg. 2(q)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/9/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:05.371498+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."
}