Online Safety Act 2023

84 Duty to pay fees

(1) OFCOM may require a provider of a regulated service to pay a fee in respect of a charging year which is a fee-paying year.

(2) Where OFCOM require a provider of a regulated service to pay a fee in respect of a charging year, the fee is to be equal to the amount produced by a computation—

(a) made by reference to—

(i) the provider’s qualifying worldwide revenue for the qualifying period relating to that charging year, and

(ii) any other factors that OFCOM consider appropriate, and

(b) made in the manner that OFCOM consider appropriate.

(3) For the purposes of this section and section 83—

(a) the amount of a provider’s qualifying worldwide revenue for a qualifying period, or

(b) the amount of a fee to be paid to OFCOM, or of an instalment of such a fee,

is, in the event of a disagreement between the provider and OFCOM, the amount determined by OFCOM.

(4) When determining fees payable under this section, OFCOM must do so in accordance with a statement of principles as mentioned in section 88(1).

(5) Where a person is the provider of a regulated service for part of a charging year only, OFCOM may refund all or part of a fee paid to OFCOM under this section by that provider in respect of that year.

(6) In this section, “fee-paying year” has the same meaning as in section 83.