The Electronic Commerce Directive (Adoption and Children Act 2002) Regulations 2005

Defence to section 124 for caching

10.  A person providing an information society service which consists of the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service shall not be guilty of an offence under section 124 of the Act as a result of that transmission where—

(a) the information is the subject of automatic, intermediate and temporary storage where that storage is for the sole purpose of making more efficient onward transmission of the information to other recipients of the service upon their request; and

(b) that person—

(i) did not modify the information;

(ii) complied with conditions on access to the information;

(iii) complied with any rules regarding the updating of the information, specified in a manner widely recognised and used by industry;

(iv) did not interfere with the lawful use of technology, widely recognised and used by industry, to obtain data on the use of the information; and

(v) acted expeditiously to remove or to disable access to the stored information upon becoming aware that the information at the initial source of the transmission had been removed from the network, or access to it had been disabled, or that a court or a responsible authority had ordered such removal or disablement.