s 48 Offences relating to unauthorised decoders and unauthorised reception of encrypted programmes
48.—(1) A person must not manufacture, assemble, modify, import, export, sell, offer for sale, let for hire or otherwise distribute any decoder which the person knows is an unauthorised decoder. (2) A person must not wilfully receive or rebroadcast any encrypted programme which has been decoded without the authorisation of the lawful provider of a broadcasting service who had broadcast the programme. (3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $40,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both, and any unauthorised decoder shall be forfeited to the Authority. (4) Where it is proved that a person has manufactured, assembled, modified, imported, exported, sold, offered for sale, let for hire or otherwise distributed any unauthorised decoder, it is presumed, unless there is evidence to the contrary, that the person knew that the decoder was an unauthorised decoder. (5) In this section and section 48A —“decoder” means any apparatus or device (including a computer program) or any component or part thereof which is designed or adapted to enable (whether on its own or with any other apparatus or device) an encrypted programme to be decoded; “lawful provider”, in relation to a broadcasting service, means —(a) a person who holds a broadcasting licence; or (b) in the case of a broadcasting service transmitted from a place outside Singapore, the person who is authorised to provide the broadcasting service in accordance with the laws of that place; “unauthorised decoder” means a decoder which is designed or adapted to enable an encrypted programme to be viewed in decoded form without the authorisation of the lawful provider of a broadcasting service who had broadcast the programme.