Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation (Temporary Exemption for Internet Intermediary) Order 2020

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No. S 378

Protection from Online Falsehoods
and Manipulation Act 2019

(ACT 18 OF 2019)

Protection from Online Falsehoods
and Manipulation (Temporary Exemption for
Internet Intermediary) Order 2020

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 61 of the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019, the Minister for Communications and Information makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation (Temporary Exemption for Internet Intermediary) Order 2020 and comes into operation on 14 May 2020.

Purpose

2. The purpose of this Order is to give the prescribed internet intermediary in this Order time to put in place the necessary arrangements and technological measures to enable it to comply with certain requirements of the Act.

Exemption

3. Facebook, Inc., in respect of Instagram, is exempt from sections 21(2), 22(2) and 23(1)(a) of the Act.

Revocation

4. The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation (Internet Intermediaries and Digital Advertising Intermediaries — Temporary Exemptions) Order 2019 (G.N. No. S 664/2019) is revoked.

Made on 13 May 2020.

YONG YING-I

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Communications
and Information,
Singapore.

[B01.026.001.V4; AG/LEGIS/SL/256B/2020/2 Vol. 1]

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