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ONLINE CRIMINAL HARMS
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“offence group” means the offences specified in a Part of the Second Schedule;

“online account” means an account on an online service;

“online activity” means any activity conducted by means of the internet, and regulations may clarify the types of activities that are online activities;

“online location” means any internet domain, website, webpage, chatroom, channel, group, forum or any other location, that can be accessed by means of the internet;

“online material” means material (including any computer program, machine code and internet link) that can be accessed at an online location by means of the internet;

“online service” means the whole or any part of any service on or through which online activity can be conducted and which can be accessed by means of the internet, and regulations may clarify the types of services that are online services;

“online service provider” means the provider of an online service;

“originator”, in relation to relevant material, means the person who posted the relevant material, and excludes any other person who reposts identical copies of the relevant material so posted;

“owner”, for an app that is distributed or available for download by means of an app distribution service, means a person that caused the app to be distributed or available for download by means of the app distribution service;

“Part 2 direction” means any of the following directions:

(a) an access blocking direction;
(b) an account restriction direction;
(c) an app removal direction;
(d) a disabling direction;
(e) a stop communication direction;