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NO. 18 OF 2019


(ii) the holder of the specified online account or any other person with control over the specified online account.

(3) Sections 41 to 44 apply in relation to an Account Restriction Direction that is varied under this section as they apply in relation to the original Direction.

(4) Section 41 applies in relation to the notice cancelling the Account Restriction Direction under this section as it applies in relation to the original Direction.

PART 7
OTHER MEASURES

Prescribed digital advertising intermediary or internet intermediary to disable access in Singapore to certain paid content

47.—(1) A prescribed digital advertising intermediary or prescribed internet intermediary must take reasonable steps (both in and outside Singapore) to ensure that it does not, when acting as a digital advertising intermediary or an internet intermediary, facilitate the communication in Singapore of any paid content that gives publicity to or otherwise promotes an online location that includes the statement or material that is the subject of a Part 3 Direction or Part 4 Direction.

(2) The Minister may instruct the Competent Authority to direct a prescribed digital advertising intermediary or prescribed internet intermediary to designate a channel by which the Competent Authority may notify it of any online location that includes a false statement of fact that is the subject of a Part 3 Direction or Part 4 Direction.

(3) A prescribed digital advertising intermediary or prescribed internet intermediary is treated for the purposes of subsection (1) as having taken reasonable steps to ensure that it does not facilitate the communication in Singapore of any paid content mentioned in that subsection if it has taken such steps as may be prescribed under section 62.