12 Safety duties protecting children
Online Safety Act 2023 (2023 c 50) | Legislation

12  Safety duties protecting children

(1)     This section sets out the duties to protect children's online safety which apply in relation to regulated user-to-user services that are likely to be accessed by children (as indicated by the headings).

All services

(2)     A duty, in relation to a service, to take or use proportionate measures relating to the design or operation of the service to effectively—

(a)     mitigate and manage the risks of harm to children in different age groups, as identified in the most recent children's risk assessment of the service (see section 11(6)(g)), and

(b)     mitigate the impact of harm to children in different age groups presented by content that is harmful to children present on the service.

(3)     A duty to operate a service using proportionate systems and processes designed to—

(a)     prevent children of any age from encountering, by means of the service, primary priority content that is harmful to children;

(b)     protect children in age groups judged to be at risk of harm from other content that is harmful to children (or from a particular kind of such content) from encountering it by means of the service.

(4)     The duty set out in subsection

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