# Terrorism Act 2000, Paragraph 7

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) In this Schedule—
" 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 ;
“ information society services ”—
(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
(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”;
“ recipient ”, in relation to a service, means any person who, for professional ends or otherwise, uses an information society service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible;
“ service provider ” means a person providing an information society service.
(2) For the purposes of this Schedule whether a service provider is established in an EEA state shall be determined in accordance with the following provisions—
(a) a service provider is established in a particular EEA state if the service provider—
(i) effectively pursues an economic activity using a fixed establishment in that EEA state for an indefinite period, and
(ii) is a national of an EEA state or a company or firm mentioned in Article 54 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ;
(b) the presence or use in a particular place of equipment or other technical means of providing an information society service does not, of itself, constitute the establishment of a service provider;
(c) where it cannot be determined from which of a number of establishments a given information society service is provided, that service is to be regarded as provided from the establishment at the centre of the service provider's activities relating to that service.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/schedule/8A/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2000/schedule-8A/paragraph-7
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