UK Parliament / Open data

Online Safety Bill

I take the noble Lord’s point and my noble friend’s further contribution. I will see whether I can give a clearer and more succinct description in writing to flesh that out, but that it is the reason that we have alighted on the words that we have.

The noble Lord, Lord Allan, also asked about jurisdiction. If an offence has been committed in the UK and viewed by a UK user, it can be treated as illegal content. That is set out in Clause 53(11), which says:

“For the purposes of determining whether content amounts to an offence, no account is to be taken of whether or not anything done in relation to the content takes place in any part of the United Kingdom”.

I hope that that bit, at least, is clearly set out to the noble Lord’s satisfaction. It looks like it may not be.

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Reference

829 c1358 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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