s 35 Right‑of‑reply (online service) direction — content
35.—(1) A right‑of‑reply (online service) direction is a direction requiring the recipient to communicate a reply notice, by means of the online service provided by the recipient, to all end‑users in Singapore who access the relevant material provided on or through the online service from any specified time. (2) Where the recipient mentioned in subsection (1) is a prescribed online service provider, the right‑of‑reply (online service) direction may also require the recipient to do one or more of the following: (a) communicate the reply notice by means of the online service provided by the recipient to all end‑users in Singapore who access online material identical to the relevant material provided on or through the online service from a specified time; (b) communicate the reply notice by any means and by a specified time, to all end‑users in Singapore that it knows had accessed the relevant material or online material identical to the relevant material (or both) by means of the online service at any time before the specified time mentioned in subsection (1). (3) A right‑of‑reply (online service) direction may only be given in respect of a publication of false material as defined in section 17, a publication of statement harmful to reputation as defined in section 18 and an online instigation of disproportionate harm as defined in section 19. (4) In this section — (a) an end‑user in Singapore who accesses a part of any material is taken to access the material; (b) “specified” means specified in the right‑of‑reply (online service) direction.