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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999/schedule-2A/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/23",
  "legislation_title": "Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/2A/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A service provider is not capable of being guilty of an offence under section 49, so far as it relates to a publication that includes matter in contravention of a direction under section 45A(2), in respect of anything done in the course of providing so much of an information society service as consists in the storage of information provided by a recipient of the service if sub-paragraph (2) or (3) is satisfied.\n(2) This sub-paragraph is satisfied if the service provider had no actual knowledge when the information was provided that it consisted of or included matter whose inclusion in a publication is prohibited by a direction under section 45A(2).\n(3) This sub-paragraph is satisfied if, on obtaining such knowledge, the service provider expeditiously removed the information or disabled access to it.\n(4) 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": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2A inserted (13.4.2015) by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), s. 95(1), Sch. 15 para. 2; S.I. 2015/778, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 81"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:51.659271+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."
}