Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation (Internet Intermediaries and Digital Advertising Intermediaries — Temporary Exemptions) Order 2019

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Protection from Online Falsehoods
and Manipulation Act 2019

(ACT 18 OF 2019)

Protection from Online Falsehoods
and Manipulation (Internet Intermediaries and
Digital Advertising Intermediaries — Temporary
Exemptions) Order 2019

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 (Internet Intermediaries and Digital Advertising Intermediaries — Temporary Exemptions) Order 2019 and comes into operation on 2 October 2019.

Purpose

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

Exemptions

3.—(1) A prescribed internet intermediary in the first column of the Schedule is, in respect of each internet intermediary service opposite the prescribed internet intermediary in the second column of that Schedule, exempt from the provisions of the Act opposite that service in the third column of that Schedule.

(2) The prescribed digital advertising intermediary known as Facebook, Inc. is exempt from sections 37(3) and 47(1) of the Act in respect of Facebook Audience Network.

Made on 30 September 2019.

YONG YING-I

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Communications
and Information,
Singapore.

[B01.026.001.V4; AG/LEGIS/SL/256B/2015/3 Vol. 1]

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