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reward for the operation of an online location if the person receives
from another —
(a) any consideration for the sale of advertising space on the
online location; or
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(b) any consideration for access to any part of the online
location.
(3) It is a defence to a charge under subsection (1) for the accused to
prove that the accused did not know and had no reason to believe that
the online location was a declared online location.
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(4) Where a court convicts any person of an offence under
subsection (1), the court must, in addition to imposing on that
person the punishment in that subsection, order the person to pay as a
penalty, within the time specified by the court, a sum equal to the
amount of any financial or other material benefit received or the
amount that in the court’s opinion is the value of that financial or
other material benefit, and any such penalty is recoverable as a fine.
(5) Subsection (4) does not apply if the court determines that the
value of the financial or other material benefit cannot be assessed.
(6) Where —
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(a) a person charged with 2 or more offences under
subsection (1) is convicted of one or more of those
offences; and
(b) the other outstanding offences are taken into consideration
by the court under section 148 of the Criminal Procedure
Code for the purpose of passing sentence,
the court may increase the penalty mentioned in subsection (4) by an
amount not exceeding the total amount or value of the financial or
other material benefit received for the offences so taken into
consideration.
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(7) In this section, a person is not taken to operate an online location
if the person does so merely as part of providing an internet
intermediary service or incidentally to such provision.
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