Broadcasting Act 1994 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8 · Foreign Broadcasting Services
30. Offence of supporting proscribed foreign broadcasting services
Feedback & supportThis section applies to any foreign broadcasting service which is proscribed for the purposes of this section by virtue of an order made under section 29, and references in this section to a proscribed service are references to any such service.
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“broadcasting service” means a service whereby signs or signals transmitted (whether or not encrypted) comprise —(a)any programme capable of being received, or received and displayed, as visual images, whether moving or still;(b)any sound programme for reception; or(c)any programme, being a combination of both visual image (whether moving or still) and sound for reception or reception and display,by persons having equipment appropriate for receiving or receiving and displaying (as the case may be) that service, irrespective of the means of delivery of that service;
Any person who in Singapore does any of the following acts shall be guilty of an offence:
supplying any equipment or other goods for use in connection with the operation of day-to-day running of a proscribed service;
supplying, or offering to supply, programmes to be included in any broadcasting service transmitted as part of a proscribed service;
arranging for, or inviting, any other person to supply programmes to be so included;
advertising, by means of programmes transmitted as part of a proscribed service, goods supplied by the person or services provided by the person;
publishing the times or other details of any programmes which are to be transmitted as part of a proscribed service or (otherwise than by publishing such details) publishing advertising matter calculated to promote a proscribed service, whether directly or indirectly;
supplying, or offering to supply, any decoding equipment which is designed or adapted to be used primarily for the purpose of enabling the reception of programmes transmitted as part of a proscribed service; and
promoting, financially or otherwise, a proscribed service.
Any person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (2) shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $40,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both.
Any equipment and goods used in the commission of an offence under this section are liable to be forfeited to the Government.
For the purposes of this section, a person exposing decoding equipment for supply or having such equipment in the person’s possession for supply is deemed to offer to supply it.