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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2025 No. 982 (C. 47)
DATA
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
(Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2025
Made - - - - 2nd September 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 142(1)
of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025(1).
Citation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Commencement
No. 2) Regulations 2025.
Commencement
2. Section 124 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (retention of information by providers of
internet services in connection with death of child) comes into force, so far as not already in force(2),
on 30th September 2025.
Jones of Whitchurch
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department for Science, Innovation and
2nd September 2025 Technology
(1) 2025 c. 18.
(2) Section 124 came into force on the day on which the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18) received Royal Assent so far as
it confers power to make regulations or is otherwise necessary for enabling the exercise of such a power (see section 142(2)
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations bring into force section 124 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18) (“the
2025 Act”). These are the second commencement regulations made under the Act.
Regulation 2 commences section 124 of the 2025 Act which amends the Online Safety Act 2023
(c. 50) (“the 2023 Act”) to include provision in that Act about the retention of information by
providers of certain regulated services (for example, social media providers) or any other relevant
person in connection with an investigation into the death of a child. ‘Regulated service’ is defined in
section 4(4) of the 2023 Act and these provisions apply only in relation to those regulated services
that are within section 101(E1) of the 2023 Act (as inserted by section 124 of the 2025 Act). ‘Relevant
person’ is defined in section 101(7) of the 2023 Act.
An impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as a full impact assessment was
published in relation to the provisions in the Data (Use and Access) Bill. Copies can be obtained from
the UK Government website at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-use-and-access-
bill-supporting-documents or from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology at 22-26
Whitehall, London, SW1A 2EG, United Kingdom.
NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT REGULATIONS
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The following provisions of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 have been brought into force, so far
as they were not already in force (see section 142(2)(h) of that Act), by commencement regulations
made before the date of these Regulations.
Provision Date of Commencement S.I. No.
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Provision Date of Commencement S.I. No.
section 109 20th August 2025 2025/904
section 110 (partially) 20th August 2025 2025/904
section 111 20th August 2025 2025/904
section 113 20th August 2025 2025/904
section 117 (partially) 20th August 2025 2025/904
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Schedule 11 (partially) 20th August 2025 2025/904
Schedule 14 20th August 2025 2025/904
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