PART 3Providers of regulated user-to-user services and regulated search services: duties of care

CHAPTER 4Children's access assessments

I1I236Duties about children’s access assessments

1

A provider of a Part 3 service must carry out the first children’s access assessment at a time set out in, or as provided by, Schedule 3.

2

Subsections (3) and (4) apply to a provider of a Part 3 service during any period when the service is not treated as likely to be accessed by children (see section 37).

3

The provider must carry out children’s access assessments of the service not more than one year apart.

4

The provider must carry out a children’s access assessment of the service—

a

before making any significant change to any aspect of the service’s design or operation to which such an assessment is relevant,

b

in response to evidence about reduced effectiveness of age verification or age estimation that is used on the service as mentioned in section 35(2), or

c

in response to evidence about a significant increase in the number of children using the service.

5

If a person is the provider of more than one Part 3 service, children’s access assessments must be carried out for each service separately.

6

Children’s access assessments must be suitable and sufficient for the purposes of this Part.

7

A provider must make and keep a written record, in an easily understandable form, of every children’s access assessment.