2. Section 2 of the National Library Board Act (called in this Act the principal Act) is amended —(a) | by deleting the definition of “library materials” and substituting the following definition:“ “library materials” means —(a) | any book, periodical, newspaper, pamphlet, musical score, map, chart, plan, picture, photograph or matter, in printed or electronic form; | (b) | any visual image (including a computer generated image) or sound, or aggregate of visual images or sounds or both, or data —(i) | embodied in or recorded on a film (including a microfilm or a microfiche), negative, tape, disc, sound track or other device or thing, so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced from it; or | (ii) | transmitted by electronic means; and |
| (c) | any online material made available on a Singapore website;”; |
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| (b) | by inserting, immediately after the definition of “National Heritage Board”, the following definition:“ “online material” means any writing, visual image, video, sound recording or data accessible to the public generally, through the Internet on a website;”; |
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| (c) | by inserting, immediately after the word “books” in the definition of “printed”, the words “or other materials”; | (d) | by deleting the definition of “published in Singapore” and substituting the following definition:“ “published in Singapore”, in relation to library materials other than online material, means produced and released in Singapore for sale or public distribution;”; and |
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| (e) | by deleting the full‑stop at the end of the definition of “publisher” and substituting a semi‑colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:“ “Singapore website” means —(a) | any website, the country code top level domain of which is associated with Singapore; or | (b) | any prescribed website or electronic service associated with Singapore.”. |
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