Singapore legislation
Clause 20
Clause 20
Cable programmes
(1)
References in this Act to the inclusion of a programme in a cable programme service are references to its inclusion in such a service by the person providing that service.
(2)
For the purposes of this Act, no account shall be taken of a cable programme service if, and to the extent that, it is provided for a person providing another such service or for the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation.
(3)
For the purposes of this Act, no account shall be taken of a cable programme service which is only incidental to a business of keeping or letting premises where persons reside or sleep, and is operated as part of the amenities provided exclusively or mainly for residents or inmates therein.
(4)
Where a service of distributing matter over wires or over other paths provided by a material substance is only incidental to, or part of, a service of transmitting telegraphic or telephonic communications, a subscriber to the last-mentioned service shall be taken, for the purposes of this section, to be a subscriber to the first-mentioned service.