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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