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Acts & Ordinances ONLINE SAFETY ACT Marginal Notes 1. This Act may be cited as the Online Safety Act, No. 9 of 2024. 2. Application of the Act 3. Objectives of the Act 4. Establishment of the Online Safety Commission 5. Appointment of the members of the Commission 6. Disqualification for being appointed as a member 7. Resignation, removal and term of office of members of the Commission 8. Chairman of the Commission 9. Meetings of the Commission 10. Seal of the Commission 11. Powers and functions of the Commission 12. Prohibition of communication of false statements in Sri Lanka 13. Communication of false statement amounting to contempt 14. Wantonly giving provocation by false statement to cause riot 15. Disturbing a religious assembly by a false statement 16. Deliberate and malicious communication of false statement to outrage religious feelings 17. Online cheating 18. Online cheating by personation 19. Circulating false report with intent to cause mutiny or an offence against the State, & c. 20. Communicating statements to cause harassment & c. 21. Child abuse & c. 22. Making or altering bots to commit an offence 23. Providing information to the Commission on communication of prohibited statement 24. Applying for a court order to prevent circulation of prohibited statements 25. Disclosure of identity information 26. Aggrieved person to seek disclosure of identity information 27. Exemption from liability of internet service providers in certain cases 28. Declared online locations 29. Certain persons not to communicate in Sri Lanka, paid content on declared online locations, & c. 30. Prohibition on deriving benefits from operating a declared online location 31. Prohibition on providing financial support to declared online locations 32. Counteracting inauthentic online accounts and coordinated inauthentic behaviour 33. Appointment of experts to assist investigations 34. Duty to assist investigations 35. Powers of search and seizure with warrant 36. Fund of the Commission 37. Audit of accounts 38. Provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act to apply 39. Jurisdiction 40. Attempt to commit an offence 41. Abetment of an offence 42. Conspiring to commit an offence 43. Offences under this Act to be non-cognizable and bailable 44. Offences by body of persons 45. Protection from action 46. Annual reports of the Commission 47. Members and staff of the Commission deemed to be public servants 48. Commission deemed to be a scheduled institution for the purpose of the AntiCorruption Act 49. Commission to make rules 50. Regulations 51. This Act to prevail over other written law 52. Interpretation 53. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency