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Protection from Harassment Act 2014 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Actions and Orders

15D. Targeted correction order

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2025. 2 amendments in all.

(1)

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 targeted correction order against an internet intermediary (called in this section the respondent) if —

(a)

the court is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that —

(i)

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

(ii)

the relevant statement is a false statement of fact; and

(b)

it is just and equitable in the circumstances to make the targeted correction order.

(2)

A targeted correction order may require the respondent to publish a targeted correction notice —

(a)

by means of the internet intermediary service, to all end‑users in Singapore who access any specified material provided on or through the service that consists of or contains the relevant statement from any specified time; and

(b)

where the respondent is a prescribed internet intermediary — by any means and by a specified time, to all end‑users in Singapore that the respondent knows had accessed the specified material mentioned in paragraph (a) or any identical copies of the specified material by means of the internet intermediary service.

(3)

A targeted correction notice must contain all or any of the following as may be specified in the targeted correction order:

(a)

a statement, in such terms as may be specified, that the court has determined the specified material consists of or contains a false statement of fact;

(b)

a statement, in such terms as may be specified, correcting the false statement of fact, or a reference to a specified location where the statement may be found.

(4)

An end-user who accesses a part of any material is taken to access the material.

(5)

In this section, “specified” means specified in the targeted correction order.

Terms defined in s 2

court
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“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;
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internet intermediary
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“internet intermediary” means a person who provides any internet intermediary service;
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internet intermediary service
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“internet intermediary service” means —(a)a service that allows end‑users to access materials originating from third parties, using the internet;(b)a service of transmitting materials to end‑users on or through the internet; or(c)a service of displaying, to an end-user who uses the service to make an online search, an index of search results, each of which links that end‑user to content hosted or stored at a location which is separate from the location of the index of search results,but excludes any act done for the purpose of or that is incidental to the provision of —(d)a service of giving the public access to the internet; or(e)a computing resource service; Examples Examples of internet intermediary services are — (a)social networking services; (b)search engine services; (c)content aggregation services; (d)internet‑based messaging services; and (e)video‑sharing services.
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material
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“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.
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publish
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“publish”, in relation to a communication or statement, means to make the communication or statement available in any form such that the communication or statement is or can be heard, seen or otherwise perceived by the public in Singapore or a member of the public in Singapore, and includes cause to be published;
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statement
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“statement” means any words (including abbreviations and initials), numbers, image (moving or otherwise), sounds, symbols or other representation, or a combination of any of these;
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targeted correction order
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“targeted correction order” means an order made under section 15D;
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15D. Targeted correction order

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