Singapore legislation
Section 15A
Section 15A
Stop publication order
(1)
A court may, on an application by the subject of an alleged false statement of fact (called in this section the relevant statement), make a stop publication order against any individual or entity (called in this section the respondent), if —
the court is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that —
the respondent has published the relevant statement; and (ii)the relevant statement is a false statement of fact; and
it is just and equitable in the circumstances to make the stop publication order.
(2)
A stop publication order may be made against a respondent even if the respondent does not know or have reason to believe that the relevant statement is false.
(3)
A stop publication order may require the respondent or any other individual or entity to stop publishing the relevant statement, and not to publish any substantially similar statement, by a specified time.
(4)
In this section —
“specified” means specified in the stop publication order; and
the respondent or any other individual or entity does not publish a statement merely by doing any act for the purpose of, or that is incidental to, the provision of —
an internet intermediary service;
a telecommunication service; (iii)a service of giving the public access to the internet; or
a computing resource service.