PART 2Key definitions

5Disapplication of Act to certain parts of services

(1)This Act does not apply in relation to a part of a Part 3 service if the conditions in paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 1 (internal business service conditions) are met in relation to that part.

(2)This Act does not apply in relation to a part of a regulated search service if—

(a)the only user-generated content enabled by that part of the service is content of any of the following kinds—

(i)content mentioned in paragraph 1, 2 or 3 of Schedule 1 (emails, SMS and MMS messages, one-to-one live aural communications) and related identifying content;

(ii)content arising in connection with any of the activities described in paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 (comments etc on provider content); and

(b)no regulated provider pornographic content is published or displayed on that part of the service.

(3)In this section—

  • regulated provider pornographic content” and “published or displayed” have the same meaning as in Part 5 (see section 79);

  • user-generated content” has the meaning given by section 55 (see subsections (3) and (4) of that section).