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18 Correction Direction

11.—(1) A Correction Direction is one issued to a person who communicated the subject statement in Singapore, requiring the person to communicate in Singapore in the specified form and manner, to a specified person or description of persons (if any), and by the specified time, a notice (called in this part a correction notice) that contains one or both of the following:
 * (a) a statement, in such terms as may be specified, that the subject statement is false, or that the specified material contains a false statement of fact;
 * (b) a specified statement of fact, or a reference to a specified location where the specified statement of fact may be found, or both.

(2) A Correction Direction may require the person to whom it is issued to communicate in Singapore a correction notice in a specified online location.

(3) A Correction Direction may also require the person to whom it is issued to do one or both of the following:
 * (a) to communicate in Singapore the correction notice by placing it in the specified proximity to every copy of the following that is communicated by the person in Singapore:
 * (i) the false statement of fact;
 * (ii) a substantially similar statement;
 * (b) to publish the correction notice in the specified manner in a specified newspaper or other printed publication of Singapore.

(4) A person who communicated a false statement of fact in Singapore may be issued a Correction Direction even if the person does not know or has no reason to believe that the statement is false.

(5) In this section—
 * (a) "specified" means specified in the Correction Direction; and