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30 Provisions applicable to all Part 4 Directions and Remedial Orders

25.—(1) A Part 4 Direction or Remedial Order may be issued to a person whether the person is in or outside Singapore.

(2) A Part 4 Direction or Remedial Order may require a person to whom it is issued to do an act in or outside Singapore.

(3) A Part 4 Direction must identify in sufficient detail the subject material and the subject statement.

(4) A Part 4 Direction or Remedial Order remains in effect until the date it expires (if any), it is set aside under section 29 (if applicable) or it is cancelled under section 31.

(5) A person who is issued a Part 4 Direction or Remedial Order is responsible for the costs of complying with the Direction.

(6) A person (A) to whom a General Correction Direction is issued may bring civil proceedings in a court against a person (B) who is the author of the subject statement and who communicated in Singapore the subject material, to recover the costs reasonably incurred by A to comply with the Direction.

(7) In such proceedings, the court, if it is satisfied on a balance of probabilities that B has contravened section 7 when communicating the subject ma erial in Singapore, may award to A such damages for those costs as the court, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, thinks just and equitable.

Service of Part 4 Directions and Remedial Orders

26. A Part 4 Direction or Remedial Order may be served by such means (including electronic means) as may be prescribed—
 * (a) on the person to whom it is issued; or
 * (b) on a person in Singapore that the person to whom the Part 4 Direction or Remedial Order is issued has appointed to accept service on the person's behalf.