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PROTECTION FROM ONLINE FALSEHOODS AND MANIPULATION
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specified reports to the Competent Authority at a specified frequency, regarding its compliance with any part of the code of practice;
(i) require a digital advertising intermediary or an internet intermediary to put in place measures to detect non-compliance with any specified due diligence measures, to keep specified records, and to provide specified reports to the Competent Authority within a specified time of such non-compliance; and
(j) require measures in the code of practice to be taken in or outside Singapore, or both.

(4) The Competent Authority may, at any time—

(a) vary a code of practice (including by adding anything to it) with respect to any purpose specified in subsection (1) or (2), as the case may be; or
(b) revoke a code of practice.

(5) If any provision in a code of practice is inconsistent with any provision of this Act, that provision—

(a) is to have effect subject to this Act; or
(b) having regard to this Act, is not to have effect.

(6) Subject to subsection (5), every prescribed digital advertising intermediary or prescribed internet intermediary, or every digital advertising intermediary or internet intermediary within the prescribed type of digital advertising intermediary or prescribed type of internet intermediary, must comply with a code of practice (or any part of it) applicable to it.

(7) The Competent Authority may, for such time as it may specify, waive the application of any code of practice (or any part of a code of practice) to any digital advertising intermediary or internet intermediary.

(8) A code of practice issued under this section does not have legislative effect.