Online Safety Act 2023

6 Overview of Part 3 U.K.

(1) This Part imposes duties of care on providers of regulated user-to-user services and regulated search services and requires OFCOM to issue codes of practice relating to some of those duties.

(2) Chapter 2 imposes duties of care on providers of regulated user-to-user services in relation to content and activity on their services.

(3) Chapter 3 imposes duties of care on providers of regulated search services in relation to content and activity on their services.

(4) Chapter 4 imposes duties on providers of regulated user-to-user services and regulated search services to assess whether a service is likely to be accessed by children.

(5) Chapter 5 imposes duties on providers of certain regulated user-to-user services and regulated search services relating to fraudulent advertising.

(6) Chapter 6 requires OFCOM to issue codes of practice relating to particular duties and explains what effects the codes of practice have.

(7) Chapter 7 is about the interpretation of this Part, and it includes definitions of the following key terms—

• “content that is harmful to children”, “primary priority content that is harmful to children” and “priority content that is harmful to children” (see sections 60 to 62);

• “illegal content”, “priority offence”, “terrorism content”, “CSEA content” and “priority illegal content” (see section 59);

• “search content” (see section 57).

Commencement Information

I1 S. 6 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 240(4)(b)