Protection from Harassment Act 2014 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Actions and Orders
15CA. Stop publication (administrator) 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 stop publication (administrator) order against an administrator of an online location (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 on the online location; and
the relevant statement is a false statement of fact; and
it is just and equitable in the circumstances to make the stop publication (administrator) order.
A stop publication (administrator) order may require the respondent to stop, within a specified time, the publication in Singapore of any specified material on the online location administered by the respondent that consists of or contains the relevant statement, or any similar copy of the specified 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 stop publication (administrator) order.
To avoid doubt, in this section, material that is similar to the specified material includes material that is identical to the specified material.