Education Act 2002 (c. 32)

SCHEDULES

[F1 SCHEDULE 11B E+W OFFENCE UNDER SECTION 141G: SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 11B inserted (1.10.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), s. 82(3), Sch. 4; S.I. 2012/2213, art. 3

Interpretation E+W

7 (1) In this Schedule— E+W

• “information society services”—

  (a)

  has the meaning given in Article 2(a) of the E-Commerce Directive (which refers to Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations), and

  (b)

  is summarised in recital 17 of the E-Commerce Directive as covering “any service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, and at the individual request of a recipient of a service”;

• “recipient”, in relation to a service, means any person who, for professional ends or otherwise, uses an information society service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible;

• “service provider” means a person providing an information society service.

F2 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 11B para. 7(2) omitted (3.3.2021) by virtue of The Electronic Commerce Directive (Education, Adoption and Children) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/222), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(c)