(3) A communications stop order must—
- (a) describe the ban on—
- (i) the making or exhibiting and communicating of a relevant film or picture by any person; or
- (ii) the exhibiting and communicating of a relevant text or audio message by any person;
- (b) state the period the ban under the order starts; and
- (c) the target area of the special authorisation to which the order relates.
(4) The Commissioner must cause notice of every communications stop order made to be given to persons who, in the Commissioner’s opinion, ought to have notice of the order.
(5) Without limiting subsection (4), notice of the making of a communications stop order to the public may be given in all or any of the following ways:
- (a) by causing it to be published in the daily newspapers circulating in Singapore in all the official languages;
- (b) by causing it to be broadcast over the radio and television and in the manner prescribed, if any;
- (c) by causing it to be published electronically;
- (d) by causing it to be published in such other manner as the Commissioner considers will secure adequate publicity for the granting of the order.
(6) A communications stop order may be revoked at any time by the Commissioner; and the Commissioner must give notice, or cause the giving of notice, of the revocation in the same manner in which the communications stop order was first given.
(7) Despite subsection (6), a communications stop order ceases to have effect when the special authorisation in relation to which the order was made ceases to have effect; and the Commissioner must give notice, or cause the giving of notice, of the cessation in the same manner in which the communications stop order was first given.
