No. 3
Electronic and Postal Communications
2010
71
(l) Content Regulation
Regulation
of contentrelated
matters
103.(1) The Minister may make regulations upon
recommendation of the Committee on content related matters.
(2) In exercising its powers, the Authority acting upon
recommendation of the Content Committee may make rules on
content related matters.
Code of
conduct for
content
services
licensees
104.(1)The code of conduct contemplated in this section
shall
(a)
(b)
be binding on all Content Service Licensees;
prohibit the provision of content which is indecent,
obscene, false, menacing or otherwise offensive in
character.
(2) Without derogating from the generality of subsection
1(b), the code of conduct shall be designed to achieve the following
objectives
(a) the protection of children;
(b) the exclusion of material likely to encourage or incite
the commission of crime, from content provided by
content service licensees;
(c) the presentation of comprehensive, accurate and
impartial news;
(d) the presentation of religious material in a balanced
and responsible manner;
(e) the protection of the public against offensive and
harmful content;
(f) appropriate
regulation
of
advertising
and
sponsorships; and
(g) the prevention of communication methods or
techniques that communicate a message to viewers or
listeners, or otherwise influence their minds, without
their being aware, or fully aware, of what has
occurred, or that has the potential for doing so.