PROTECTION FROM ONLINE FALSEHOODS AND MANIPULATION
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- (a) to disable access by end-users of the service in Singapore to identical copies of the subject material provided on or through the internet intermediary service;
- (b) to communicate a correction notice by any means to a specified description of end-users in Singapore.
(3) Once a Disabling Direction has been issued, the Competent Authority must publish a notice of that fact in the Gazette as soon as possible.
(4) However, a failure to publish the notice of the issue of the Disabling Direction in the Gazette does not invalidate the Direction.
(5) In this section—
- (a) "specified" means specified in the Disabling Direction; and
- (b) an end-user who accesses a part of any material is taken to access the material.
General Correction Direction
23.—(1) A General Correction Direction is one issued to one of the following persons to carry out an act mentioned in subsection (2):
- (a) a prescribed internet intermediary;
- (b) a prescribed holder of a permit under section 21 of the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act (Cap. 206);
- (c) a prescribed broadcasting licensee within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Broadcasting Act (Cap. 28);
- (d) a prescribed holder of a licence under section 5 of the Telecommunications Act;
- (e) such other person as may be prescribed.
(2) The act mentioned in subsection (1) is—
- (a) if the direction is issued to a person mentioned in subsection (1)(a), to communicate a correction notice in Singapore by means of the internet intermediary service provided by it, to all end-users who use that service at any
