Deregulation Bill

A draft Deregulation Bill was published on 1st July 2013.

Clause 26

110. This provision repeals sections 17 and 18 of the Digital Economy Act 2010. Those sections contain powers to make regulations that would grant courts the power to order internet service providers to block access to websites. The court would need to be satisfied that such websites are used, or are likely to be used, to infringe copyright. In August 2011 the government announced in its paper ‘Next steps for the implementation of the Digital Economy Act’ that it would not make such regulations. This was on the basis of a study carried out by Ofcom which concluded that the specific blocking injunctions in the Act were unlikely to be effective in practice.

• Draft Deregulation Bill committee
• Draft bill (pdf)
• Progress
• Digital Economy Act 2010/Technical Measures