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ONLINE SAFETY ACT 2021 - SECT 128

App removal notice

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person provides an app distribution service; and

  (b)   the service enables end - users in Australia to download an app that facilitates the posting of class 1 material on:

  (i)   a social media service; or

  (ii)   a relevant electronic service; or

  (iii)   a designated internet service;

the Commissioner may give the provider of the app distribution service a written notice, to be known as an app removal notice , requiring the provider to:

  (c)   cease enabling end - users in Australia to download the app using the service; and

  (d)   do so within:

  (i)   24 hours after the notice was given to the provider; or

  (ii)   such longer period as the Commissioner allows.

  (2)   So far as is reasonably practicable, the material must be identified in the app removal notice in a way that is sufficient to enable the app distribution service provider to comply with the notice.

  (3)   The app removal notice may also require the app distribution service provider to:

  (a)   notify the Commissioner that the provider has ceased to enable end - users in Australia to download the app; and

  (b)   do so as soon as practicable after the cessation.

  (4)   The Commissioner must not give the app removal notice unless:

  (a)   the Commissioner is satisfied that there were 2 or more times during the previous 12 months when end - users in Australia could use the service to download an app that facilitates the posting of class 1 material; and

  (b)   during the previous 12 months:

  (i)   the Commissioner gave one or more removal notices under section   109 or 110 in relation to class 1 material, the posting of which is facilitated by the app; and

  (ii)   those removal notices were not complied with.



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