{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A service provider does not commit an offence under section 69(1) by storing information provided by a recipient of the service if—\n(a) the service provider had no actual knowledge when the information was provided that it was, or contained, a prohibited item, or\n(b) on obtaining actual knowledge that the information was, or contained, a prohibited item, the service provider promptly removed the information or disabled access to it.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply if the recipient of the service is acting under the authority or control of the service provider.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}