Schedule 4: Codes of practice under section 41: principles, objectives, content Chapter 7: Interpretation of Part 3 Section 59: "Illegal content" etc
This section defines "illegal content" as content which amounts to a relevant offence (subsections (2) and (3)).
	Subsection (4) defines a "relevant offence" as a priority offence (defined in subsection (7) as an offence specified in Schedule 5, 6 or 7) or an offence within subsection (5).
	Subsection (5) covers any offence which is not a priority offence, which has an individual victim or intended victim, and which is created by an Act of Parliament or by certain other specified kinds of legislation. Subsection (6) excludes certain types of offences from the definition of "relevant offence".
	Subsection (10) defines priority illegal content as terrorism content, CSEA content or content that amounts to an offence listed in Schedule 7. "Terrorism content" and "CSEA content" are defined in subsections (8) and (9) respectively.
	Under subsection (11), content does not need to be generated, uploaded or accessed (or have anything else done in relation to it) in any part of the United Kingdom to amount to an offence under this provision. This is the case regardless of whether the criminal law would require any relevant action to take place in the United Kingdom (or a particular part of it).
	Subsection (12) ensures that content generated by a bot is capable of being illegal content.
	Subsections (13) and (14) clarify that for user-to-user services and the user-to-user part only of combined services, illegal content, terrorism content, CSEA content and priority illegal content does not have to be present on a regulated service to meet the relevant definitions for these types of content. This provision is necessary to allow service providers to take steps in relation to content which would not otherwise meet these definitions because it had not yet been uploaded to or shared on a service.
	Content amounting to any offence under the law of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland which meets the definition under subsection (4) is illegal content (including, as appropriate, priority illegal content) in all parts of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Act.