Schedule 3: Timing of providers’ assessments User-to-user services likely to be accessed by children Section 14: Assessment duties: User empowerment
This section requires providers of Category 1 services to carry out (in subsection (2)) and keep up to date (in subsection (3)) assessments in relation to content covered by their user empowerment duties under section 15(2).
	Subsection (4) requires providers of Category 1 services to carry out an additional assessment of the impacts of any proposed significant change to the service’s design or operation, before making the change.
	Subsection (5) lists the matters which must be covered by these assessments. This includes an assessment of the incidence of relevant content on the services, the likelihood of adult users encountering it, and various factors which may influence that incidence or likelihood.
	Sections 15(8) and 16(1) make further provision about assessments under this section.