அதிகாரப்பூர்வ மொழிபெயர்ப்புDepartment of Government Printing-இலிருந்து, மாற்றமின்றி
(1)
An internet service provider must take reasonable steps (both in and outside Sri Lanka) to ensure that, after a prescribed period commencing on the date a declaration made under section 28 comes into effect, any paid content that it includes or causes to be included on a declared online location, is not communicated in Sri Lanka on the declared online location.
(2)
An internet intermediary must take reasonable steps
(both in and outside Sri Lanka) to ensure that, after a prescribed period commencing on the date a declaration made under section 28 comes into effect, any paid content that it includes or causes to be included on a declared online location is not communicated in Sri Lanka on the declared online location.
(3)
An internet intermediary must take reasonable steps
(both in and outside Sri Lanka) to ensure that, after a prescribed period commencing on the date on the declaration made under section 28 comes into effect, it does not, when acting as an internet intermediary, facilitate the communication in Sri Lanka of any paid content that gives publicity to, or otherwise promotes, a declared online location.
(4)
An internet service provider or internet intermediary shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) or (2), as the case may be, as having taken reasonable steps to ensure that any paid content that it includes or causes to be included on a declared online location is not communicated in Sri
Lanka on the declared online location, if it has taken such steps as may be prescribed.
(5)
An internet intermediary is treated for the purposes of subsection (3), as having taken reasonable steps to ensure that it does not facilitate the communication in Sri Lanka of any paid content mentioned in that subsection if it has taken such steps as may be prescribed.
(6)
A person who fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (1), (2) or (3) commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or to a fine not exceeding ten million rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction, such term of imprisonment or fine or both such imprisonment and fine may be doubled.