Part 7: OFCOM's powers and duties in relation to regulated services Chapter 1: General Duties Section 91: General duties of OFCOM under section 3 of the Communications Act
This section amends OFCOM’s existing general duties under section 3 of the Communications Act 2003 (CA 2003), in order to set out duties applicable to OFCOM’s new role as the online safety regulator.
	This section introduces a new general duty on OFCOM to secure, in the carrying out of their functions, the adequate protection of citizens from harm presented by regulated services, through the appropriate use by providers of such services of systems and processes designed to reduce the risk of such harm.
	The amendments include listing the factors that OFCOM must have regard to in performing the new general duty, and specifying that OFCOM do not need to have regard to the desirability of promoting and facilitating the development of self-regulation in carrying out their functions under the Online Safety Act 2023.
	This section also provides that the terms ‘content’, ‘harm’, ‘provider’, and ‘regulated service’ have the same meaning in the CA 2003 as in the Online Safety Act 2023.