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Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act 2021 · Updated to 5 Dec 2025 · Part 3 · Directions Against Harmful Foreign Online Communications Activity

35. Service restriction direction — content

(1)

A service restriction direction may require a provider of a social media service or relevant electronic service or an internet access service to whom it is given to take all reasonable steps to do one or more of the following within the time specified in the direction, in relation to all or any of the provider’s relevant activities:

(a)

to stop or delay delivery of or access to messages or information or material transmitted or accessible to end‑users physically present in Singapore who use or may use the social media service, relevant electronic service or internet access service, as the case may be;

(b)

to restrict access to messages or information or material transmitted or accessible to end‑users physically present in Singapore who use or may use the social media service, relevant electronic service or internet access service, as the case may be;

(c)

to alter any functionality of the social media service, relevant electronic service or internet access service (as the case may be) provided to end‑users physically present in Singapore who use or may use the service; (d)to suspend or curtail the supply or provision of the service.

(2)

A service restriction direction may require the doing of any thing in subsection (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d) with respect to the provision of a social media service or relevant electronic service or an internet access service —

(a)

to any area in Singapore; or (b)to one or more groups of end‑users who use or may use the service,but cannot be expressed to apply to the supply or provision of the service to a particular person.

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Part 4