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Rh ::(d) a person who lobbies on behalf of the foreign legislature or foreign political organisation. Division 2—Published-by requirement for foreign-linked political matters Application and interpretation

80.—(1) This Division applies only to the following persons:
 * (a) a politically significant person;
 * (b) a person who is not a politically significant person but is—
 * (i) authorised by a permit under section 21 of the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act 1974 to publish (for sale or otherwise) a newspaper in Singapore; or
 * (ii) authorised by a licence or class licence under the Broadcasting Act 1994 to provide a licensable broadcasting service in or from Singapore, and the broadcasting service contains at least one Singapore news programme that is likely to be published for a purpose that is directed towards a political end in Singapore.

(2) In this Division—
 * “author”, for any political matter, means an individual who authored, edited, translated, illustrated, choreographed, directed the production of, or otherwise contributed to, the contents of the political matter, but for a programme which is broadcast or a performance, does not include an individual who is solely a presenter of the content of the programme or a performer of content provided by another;
 * “Singapore news programme” means any programme containing any news, intelligence, report of occurrence, or any matter of public interest, about any social, economic, political, cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific or other aspect of Singapore in any language—
 * (a) whether or not it is presenter-based;