Singapore legislation
Section 6
Section 6
Definitions for remote gambling advertising, etc.
(1)
In this Act, a “remote gambling service advertisement” means any writing, still or moving picture, sign, symbol (whether 3‑dimensional or 2‑dimensional) or other visual image, or any audible message, or any combination of 2 or more of those things, that gives publicity to, or otherwise promotes or is intended to promote —
a particular remote gambling service;
remote gambling services in general;
a domain name or uniform resource locator (URL) that relates to a particular remote gambling service; or
any words that are closely associated with a particular remote gambling service (whether or not also closely associated with other kinds of services or products),unless excluded by the Minister by an order in the Gazette.
(2)
For the purposes of this Act, a person publishes a remote gambling service advertisement if the person does any of the following things:
the person includes the advertisement, or something that contains the advertisement, on an online location or in any way that renders the advertisement accessible from the Internet;
the person includes the advertisement in a newspaper, magazine, leaflet, ticket or other document that is available, or distributed, to the public or a section of the public;
the person includes the advertisement in a film, video, television programme or radio programme that is, or is intended to be, seen or heard by the public or a section of the public;
the person displays, screens or plays the advertisement, or something that contains the advertisement, so that it can be seen or heard in or from a public place, any vehicle, vessel, train or aircraft or any workplace;
the person sells, hires or supplies the advertisement, or something containing the advertisement, to the public or a section of the public, or offers the advertisement, or something containing the advertisement, for sale or supply to, or hire by, the public or a section of the public;
the person makes known the advertisement to the public or a section of the public in any other manner or by any other means.
(3)
However, none of the following, of itself, amounts to publication of a remote gambling service advertisement:
the communication of information that is or includes a remote gambling service advertisement to a group of people all of whom are involved in the provision of remote gambling services;
the publication in a telephone directory of the name of a person who provides a remote gambling service unless —
the publication is on the Internet; and
the entry for the person contains a link to an online location for the person that relates to the remote gambling service;
an index of online search results which links or refers an end user in Singapore to remote gambling services or facilities for the access to or use of remote gambling services, which is made available to that person only because that person initiates a search through an online information location service, such as but not limited to a search engine service;
any other activity specified or described by the Minister in an order in the Gazette.
(4)
For the purposes of this Act, a person promotes remote gambling if —
the person does anything to encourage one or more persons to take advantage (whether directly or through an agent) of facilities for remote gambling;
with a view to increasing the use of facilities for remote gambling, the person brings those facilities or information about those facilities to the attention of one or more persons; or
the person participates in or facilitates an activity knowing or believing that it is designed —
to encourage one or more persons to take advantage (whether directly or through an agent) of facilities for remote gambling; or
to increase the use of facilities for remote gambling by bringing those facilities or information about those facilities to the attention of one or more persons,but that person does not promote remote gambling merely because that person publishes a remote gambling service advertisement.
(5)
In subsection (1)(d), “words” includes abbreviations, initials and numbers.