Schedule 3: Timing of providers’ assessments Search services likely to be accessed by children Section 30: Safety duties protecting children: interpretation
This section sets out how the child safety duties on search services in section 29 are to be interpreted.
	Subsection (1) specifies the factors which are particularly relevant in determining whether steps, systems and processes for the purposes of section 29 are proportionate.
	Subsection (2) specifies that service providers are only required to meet a duty in this section in relation to non-designated content that is harmful to children if risks from such content have been identified in the most recent children’s risk assessment. Non-designated content is that which is neither primary priority content nor priority content but which would satisfy the test of being harmful to children in section 60(2)(c).
	Subsection (3) explains that references in section 29 to children judged to be in age groups at risk of harm from content that is harmful to children, are to be read as being those who have been assessed as such by the provider in its most recent children’s risk assessment.
	Subsection (4) provides that the duties in section 29(3) (which require service providers to take steps to minimise the risk of children encountering search content that is harmful to children) apply only in relation to content which gives rise to a risk of harm due to its nature. It would not be feasible for providers to fulfil these duties for content that is only harmful by the fact of its dissemination. An example would be doxxing, where the content is not inherently harmful to children encountering it but its dissemination may be harmful to a particular targeted child.
	Subsection (5) clarifies that the duties in section 29 extend only to those parts of the service which it is possible for children to access. Under subsection (6), a provider can only conclude that children cannot access a service, or part of a service, if age verification or age estimation is used on the service, with the result that children are not normally able to access it.