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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/507",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Mere conduits",
  "text": "(1) A service provider does not contravene regulation 43 only by providing access to a communication network, or by transmitting, in a communication network, information provided by a recipient of the service, if the service provider does not—\n(a) initiate the transmission;\n(b) select the recipient of the transmission; or\n(c) select or modify the information contained in the transmission.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the provision of access to a communication network and the transmission of information in a communication network include the automatic, intermediate and transient storage of the information transmitted if—\n(a) the storage is solely for the purpose of carrying out the transmission in the network; and\n(b) the information is not stored for longer than is reasonably necessary for the transmission.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/507/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:36:22.754234+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."
}