Section 11 — Correction Direction

(1)A Correction Direction is one issued to a person who communicated the subject statement in Singapore, requiring the person to communicate in Singapore in the specified form and manner, to a specified person or description of persons (if any), and by the specified time, a notice (called in this Part a correction notice) that contains one or both of the following:

(a)a statement, in such terms as may be specified, that the subject statement is false, or that the specified material contains a false statement of fact;

(b)a specified statement of fact, or a reference to a specified location where the specified statement of fact may be found, or both.

(2)A Correction Direction may require the person to whom it is issued to communicate in Singapore a correction notice in a specified online location.

(3)A Correction Direction may also require the person to whom it is issued to do one or both of the following:

(a)to communicate in Singapore the correction notice by placing it in the specified proximity to every copy of the following that is communicated by the person in Singapore:

(i)the false statement of fact;

(ii)a substantially similar statement;

(b)to publish the correction notice in the specified manner in a specified newspaper or other printed publication of Singapore.

(4)A person who communicated a false statement of fact in Singapore may be issued a Correction Direction even if the person does not know or has no reason to believe that the statement is false.

(5)In this section —

(a)“specified” means specified in the Correction Direction; and

(b)a person does not communicate a statement in Singapore merely by doing any act for the purpose of, or that is incidental to, the provision of —

(i)an internet intermediary service;

(ii)a telecommunication service;

(iii)a service of giving the public access to the internet; or

(iv)a computing resource service.