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(1) The Authority may set conditions to regulate the provision, content, promotion and marketing of premium rate services.

(2) A service is a premium rate service if

(a) there is a charge for the provision of the service,

(b) the charge is required to be paid to the provider of the telecommunications service.

(c) that charge is imposed for the use of the telecommunications service,

(d) it has the contents of electronic communications transmitted by means of an electronic communications network, and

(e) it allows the user of an electronic communications service to access a facility provided by that service to make a transmission.

(3) A person provides a premium rate service if that person

(a) provides the service described in subsection (2),

(b) exercises editorial control over the contents of the service,

(c) packages together the contents of the service for the purpose of facilitating its provision,

(d) makes available a facility comprised in the service,

(e) is the provider of an electronic communications service used for the provision of the service and is entitled under arrangements made with a provider of the service falling within paragraph (a) to (d), to retain some or all of the charges received in respect of the provision of the service or of the use of the electronic communications service,

(f) is the provider of an electronic communications network used to provide the service and an agreement relating to the use of the network for that service subsists between the provider of the network and a person who is a provider of the service falling within paragraph (a) to (d), and

(g) is the provider of an electronic communications network used to provide the service and the use of that network

(i) for the premium rate services, or

(ii) of services that include or may include premium rate services, and is authorized by an agreement subsisting between that person and either an intermediary service provider or a person who is a provider of the service by virtue of paragraph (e) or (f).