Part 2 Online Services: Prohibition

Part 2 Online Services: Prohibition

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In the Communications Act 2003, after Part 4B insert—

“Part 4C
Online Advertising of Less Healthy Food and Drink

Advertising of less healthy food and drink

368Z14 Prohibition of paid-for advertising of less healthy food and drink

(1)     From the beginning of 1 January 2023, a person must not pay for advertisements for an identifiable less healthy food or drink product to be placed on the internet.

(2)     Subsection (1) does not apply where the person paying is, at the time when the payment is made, a food or drink SME.

(3)     Subsection (1) does not apply—

(a)     in relation to advertisements which are directed solely at persons who are engaged in, or employed by, a business which involves or is associated with the manufacture or sale of food or drink,

(b)     in relation to advertisements included in on-demand programme services (as to which, see section 368FA),

(c)     in relation to advertisements included in services connected to regulated radio services, or

(d)     in relation to advertisements which are not intended to be accessed principally by persons in any part of the United Kingdom.

(4)     The Secretary of State may by regulations provide

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