Singapore legislation
Regulation 3A
Regulation 3A
Exclusion from class licence
Subregulation 1
A notice may be given by the Authority to any person who provides a computer on-line service in or from Singapore, whether for payment or free, and whether at regular intervals or otherwise —
that is accessed from at least 50,000 different Internet protocol addresses in Singapore per month on average, over any period of 2 consecutive months; and
that contains at least one Singapore news programme per week on average, over the same period of 2 consecutive months referred to in sub-paragraph (a),and that notice shall not cease to have effect by reason only that the computer on-line service concerned ceases subsequently to satisfy sub-paragraph (a) or (b) during the validity of any broadcasting licence under section 8 of the Act relating to that service.
Subregulation 2
For the purposes of reckoning access and content under sub-paragraph (1)(a) and (b) —
where a computer on-line service is provided by a web site with a domain and one or more sub-domains, all sub-domains shall be regarded as part of the domain of the web site; and
where a computer on-line service is provided by a web site in or from Singapore (referred to in this sub-paragraph as the original web site) which is duplicated on or transferred to one or more other web sites in or from Singapore (referred to in this sub-paragraph as the mirrored web site), all mirrored web sites shall be regarded as part of the original web site.
Subregulation 3
In this paragraph, “Singapore news programme” means any programme (whether or not the programme is presenter-based and whether or not the programme is provided by a third party) containing any news, intelligence, report of occurrence, or any matter of public interest, about any social, economic, political, cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific or any other aspect of Singapore in any language (whether paid or free and whether at regular intervals or otherwise) but does not include any programme produced by or on behalf of the Government.
Subregulation 4
This Notification also does not apply to or in relation to a person who is a class licensee by virtue of the Broadcasting (Class Licence — Broadcasting to Digital Display Panels) Notification 2020 (G.N. No. S 477/2020).