Part 3: Online pornography Section 23: Regulator’s power to require internet services providers to block access to material
This section provides the regulator with the power to give a notice to any internet service provider requiring it to prevent access by persons in the UK to material that the regulator considers to be in breach of section 14(1), or to be extreme pornographic material as defined in section 22. It is the duty of an internet service provider to comply with any requirement imposed on it by such a notice; that duty is enforceable in civil proceedings by the age-verification regulator.