SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Timing of providers’ assessments

PART 3Pre-existing Part 4B services

I1I27Interpretation of this Part

1

In this Part, “pre-existing Part 4B service” means—

a

an internet service which—

i

is a video-sharing platform service by reason of the conditions in section 368S(1) and (2) of the Communications Act being met in relation to the service as a whole, and

ii

was being provided immediately before Schedule 17 (videosharing platform services: transitional provision etc) comes into force; or

b

a dissociable section of an internet service, where that dissociable section—

i

is a video-sharing platform service by reason of the conditions in section 368S(1)(a) and (2) of the Communications Act being met in relation to that dissociable section, and

ii

was being provided immediately before Schedule 17 comes into force.

2

In sub-paragraph (1), any reference to a service provided before Schedule 17 comes into force includes a reference to a service provided in breach of the requirement in section 368V of the Communications Act.