Protection from Harassment Act 2014 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Actions and Orders
15C. Disabling order
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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 disabling order against an internet intermediary (called in this section the respondent) if —
court
“court”, for the purposes of sections 12 and 13 and Division 2 of Part 3, means a District Court (including the Protection from Harassment Court) or a Family Court;
the court is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that —
any material consisting of or containing the relevant statement has been or is being published by means of an internet intermediary service provided by the respondent; and
the relevant statement is a false statement of fact; and
it is just and equitable in the circumstances to make the disabling order.
A disabling order may require the respondent to disable access by end‑users of the internet intermediary service provided by the respondent in Singapore, within a specified time, to —
any specified material provided on or through the service that consists of or contains the relevant statement; and
where the respondent is a prescribed internet intermediary — the specified material mentioned in paragraph (a) or any identical copies of the specified material.
An end-user who accesses a part of any material is taken to access the material.
material
“material” means anything that consists of or contains a statement; Examples Examples of a material are a message, a post, an article, a speech, a picture, a video recording and a sound recording.
In this section, “specified” means specified in the disabling order.