Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002

[F1 Exception for hosting U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. inserted (28.9.2006) by Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2369), regs. 1(1), 9

4. (1) A service provider is not capable of being guilty of a relevant offence in respect of anything done in the course of providing so much of an information society service as consists in the storage of information provided by a recipient of the service if— U.K.

(a) the service provider did not know when the information was provided that it contained offending material, or

(b) upon obtaining actual knowledge that the information contained offending material, the service provider expeditiously removed the information or disabled access to it.

(2) Offending material is material the storage of which would constitute a relevant offence.]