s 42K Unauthorised third party non-online election advertising
42K.—(1) A person who is a third party at an election commits an offence if —(a) the third party at any time during the election period of an election —(i) publishes, or causes to be published, in Singapore any content by electronic means in any way other than rendering the content accessible from the Internet; or (ii) publicly displays, or causes to be publicly displayed, any content; (b) the content is or includes non-online election advertising that relates to the election; and (c) the third party knows or ought reasonably to have known that the content is or includes non-online election advertising that relates to the election. (2) Any person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on conviction by a District Court to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both. (3) However, in any proceedings for an offence under subsection (1), it is a defence for the person charged to prove, on a balance of probabilities, that the person was granted a written authority signed by a candidate or a candidate’s election agent in the prescribed form. (4) Subsection (1) does not apply to or in relation to any of the following:(a) any publication of any news relating to an election by an authorised news agency; (b) any publishing of content by electronic means or public display of content in other circumstances prescribed by the election advertising regulations as excluded from subsection (1).[Act 9 of 2023 wef 01/06/2023]