Schedule 17: Video sharing platform services: transitional provision etc Other powers to amend Act Section 220: Powers to amend or repeal provisions relating to exempt content or services
This section allows the Secretary of State to make regulations to amend or repeal provisions relating to exempt content or services if the Secretary of State considers that it is appropriate to do so because of the risk of harm to individuals in the United Kingdom presented by the relevant content or services. Regulations made under this section can be used to exempt certain content or services from the scope of the regulatory regime or to bring them into scope.
	Subsection (3) provides that these powers cannot be used to bring comments on news publisher sites within the definition of "regulated user-generated content" in Part 3 (see section 55).