division_name: Online Safety Bill &#8212; New Clause 14 - Providers&#8217; judgements about the status of content
motion: <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;(1) This section sets out the approach to be taken where&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) a system or process operated or used by a provider of a Part 3 service for the purpose of compliance with relevant requirements, or</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) a risk assessment required to be carried out by Part 3, involves a judgement by a provider about whether content is content of a particular kind.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">(2) Such judgements are to be made on the basis of all relevant information that is reasonably available to a provider.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">(3) In construing the reference to information that is reasonably available to a provider, the following factors, in particular, are relevant&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) the size and capacity of the provider, and</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/7" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) whether a judgement is made by human moderators, by means of automated systems or processes or by means of automated systems or processes together with human moderators.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/8" pwmotiontext="yes">(4) Subsections (5) to (7) apply (as well as subsection (2)) in relation to judgements by providers about whether content is&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/9" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) illegal content, or illegal content of a particular kind, or</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/10" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) a fraudulent advertisement.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/11" pwmotiontext="yes">(5) In making such judgements, the approach to be followed is whether a provider has reasonable grounds to infer that content is content of the kind in question (and a provider must treat content as content of the kind in question if reasonable grounds for that inference exist).</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/12" pwmotiontext="yes">(6) Reasonable grounds for that inference exist in relation to content and an offence if, following the approach in subsection (2), a provider&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/13" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) has reasonable grounds to infer that all elements necessary for the commission of the offence, including mental elements, are present or satisfied, and</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/14" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) does not have reasonable grounds to infer that a defence to the offence may be successfully relied upon.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/15" pwmotiontext="yes">(7) In the case of content generated by a bot or other automated tool, the tests mentioned in subsection (6)(a) and (b) are to be applied in relation to the conduct or mental state of a person who may be assumed to control the bot or tool (or, depending what a provider knows in a particular case, the actual person who controls the bot or tool).</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/16" pwmotiontext="yes">(8) In considering a provider&#8217;s compliance with relevant requirements to which this section is relevant, OFCOM may take into account whether providers&#8217; judgements follow the approaches set out in this section (including judgements made by means of automated systems or processes, alone or together with human moderators).</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/17" pwmotiontext="yes">(9) In this section&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/18" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;fraudulent advertisement&#8221; has the meaning given by section 34 or 35 (depending on the kind of service in question);</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/19" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;illegal content&#8221; has the same meaning as in Part 3 (see section 52);</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/20" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;relevant requirements&#8221; means&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/21" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) duties and requirements under this Act, and</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e234.2/22" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) requirements of a notice given by OFCOM under this Act.&#8221;&#8212;(Damian Collins.)</p>