Online Safety Act 2023

31 Duty about content reporting U.K.

(1) This section sets out the duty about content reporting which applies in relation to all regulated search services.

(2) A duty to operate a service using systems and processes that allow users and affected persons to easily report search content which they consider to be content of a kind specified below (with the duty extending to content that is harmful to children depending on the kind of service, as indicated by the headings).

All services

(3) Illegal content.

Services likely to be accessed by children

(4) Content that is harmful to children.

Interpretation

(5) In this section “affected person” means a person, other than a user of the service in question, who is in the United Kingdom and who is—

(a) the subject of the content,

(b) a member of a class or group of people with a certain characteristic targeted by the content,

(c) a parent of, or other adult with responsibility for, a child who is a user of the service or is the subject of the content, or

(d) an adult providing assistance in using the service to another adult who requires such assistance, where that other adult is a user of the service or is the subject of the content.

(6) See also, in relation to the duty set out in this section, section 33 (duties about freedom of expression and privacy).

Commencement Information

I1 S. 31 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 240(1)

I2 S. 31 in force at 10.1.2024 by S.I. 2023/1420, reg. 2(j)