A service provider is not capable of being guilty of an offence under section 2 in respect of anything done in the course of providing so much of an information society service as consists of the storage of information provided by a recipient of the service, if sub-paragraph (2) or (3) is satisfied.

This sub-paragraph is satisfied if the service provider had no actual knowledge when the information was provided that the provision of the information amounted to an offence under section 2.

This sub-paragraph is satisfied if, on obtaining such knowledge, the service provider expeditiously removed the information or disabled access to it.

Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply if the recipient of the service is acting under the authority or control of the service provider.