Online Safety Act, No. 9 of 2024 35 (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. 30. (1) Any person, whether in or outside Sri Lanka, who solicits, receives or agrees to receive any financial or other material benefit as an inducement or reward for operating a declared online location commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding five 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. Prohibition on deriving benefits from operating a declared online location