s 45D Meaning of “egregious content”
45D.—(1) In this Part, “egregious content” means —(a) content that advocates or instructs on suicide or self-harm; (b) content that advocates or instructs on violence or cruelty to, physical abuse of, or acts of torture or other infliction of serious physical harm on, human beings; (c) content that advocates or instructs on sexual violence or coercion in association with sexual conduct, whether or not involving the commission of a heinous sex crime; (d) content depicting for a sexual purpose, or that exploits, the nudity of a child or part of a child in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being offensive, whether or not sexual activity is involved; (e) content that advocates engaging in conduct in a way that —(i) obstructs or is likely to obstruct any public health measure carried out in Singapore; or (ii) results or is likely to result in a public health risk in Singapore; (f) content dealing with matters of race or religion in a way that is likely to cause feelings of enmity, hatred, ill will or hostility against, or contempt for or ridicule of, different racial or religious groups in Singapore; (g) content that advocates or instructs on terrorism; or (h) any other content that is prescribed by Part 10A regulations as egregious content. (2) It does not matter if the content in subsection (1) relates to conduct engaged in within or outside Singapore. (3) In this section —“heinous sex crime” means —(a) an offence under the Penal Code 1871 involving serious sexual assault such as rape or sexual assault by penetration, or sexual communication with or sexual grooming of a child; (b) an offence under section 8 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1993; (c) an abetment of or a conspiracy to commit an offence specified in paragraph (a) or (b); (d) an attempt to commit an offence specified in paragraph (a) or (b); or (e) conduct outside Singapore which, had it been engaged in within Singapore, would have been an offence specified in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) and punishable by a Singapore court; “public health measure” means the organised response by society (including Government) to prevent, mitigate or control a public health risk; “public health risk” means circumstances, a thing or substance that —(a) is or is likely to be hazardous to the health of individuals in the context of the wider health of the community; or (b) contributes or is likely to contribute to disease or the transmission of an infectious disease to or among human beings; “terrorism” means the engaging in any conduct constituting —(a) a terrorist act within the meaning given by section 2(2) and (3) of the Terrorism (Suppression of Financing) Act 2002 affecting persons or property situated in Singapore; (b) a terrorist bombing offence within the meaning given by section 2 of the Terrorism (Suppression of Bombings) Act 2007; (c) a nuclear terrorism offence within the meaning given by section 2 of the Terrorism (Suppression of Misuse of Radioactive Material) Act 2017; (d) an abetment of or a conspiracy to commit an act or offence specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c); (e) an attempt to commit an act or offence specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c); or (f) an offence specified in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) and punishable by a Singapore court if the conduct had been engaged in within Singapore.[Act 38 of 2022 wef 01/02/2023]