Schedule 3: Timing of providers’ assessments Search services: which duties apply, and scope of duties Section 25: Scope of duties of care
Subsection (1) of this section sets out how the duties in Part 3, Chapter 3 apply to providers of a search service. The duties for providers of a search service only extend to the design, operation and use of the search engine in the United Kingdom or, in the case of a duty that is expressed to apply in relation to users of a service, how its design, operation or use affects United Kingdom users of a service.
	Subsection (2) sets out how the duties in the Chapter apply to the search engine of a combined service. Firstly, where duties in this Chapter require a service to include something in a publicly available statement, the provider of a combined service may set this out in terms of service. Unlike a search service, a combined service has a user-to-user part which will have such terms. Secondly, since the duties in this chapter refer to a "search service" and a "provider of a search service", this provision makes clear that these references are also to the search engine of a combined service (which does not fulfil the definition of a search service). The intention is that duties apply to the search engine of a combined service, and to the provider of that service, in the same way that they apply to a search service and its provider. The references in section 24 are excepted from this provision because the duties on the provider of a combined service in relation to its search engine are set out at section 7(6).