Online Safety Act 2023

63Content harmful to children: OFCOM’s review and reportU.K.

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(1)OFCOM must carry out reviews of—

(a)the incidence on regulated user-to-user services of content that is harmful to children,

(b)the incidence on regulated search services and combined services of search content that is harmful to children, and

(c)the severity of harm that children in the United Kingdom suffer, or may suffer, as a result of those kinds of content.

(2)OFCOM must produce and publish a report on the outcome of each review.

(3)The report must include advice as to whether, in OFCOM’s opinion, it is appropriate to make changes to sections 61 and 62, specifying the changes that OFCOM recommend.

(4)The reports must be published not more than three years apart.

(5)The first report must be published before the end of the period of three years beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

(6)OFCOM must send a copy of each report to the Secretary of State.

Commencement Information

I1S. 63 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 240(4)(h)