Online Safety Act, No. 9 of 2024 53 “person” means a natural or legal person; “prescribe” means prescribe by regulations; “prohibited statement” means a statement specified in section 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 or 20; “publish” means making available to the public on or through the internet; “social media platform” means a service provided by an internet intermediary(a) solely for the purpose of enabling online social interaction between two or more end users in Sri Lanka; (b) which allows end users in Sri Lanka to link to some or all of the other end users; or (c) which allows the end users in Sri Lanka to post material on the service, but does not include any such service of which any information communicated through the service is not accessible by the end users in Sri Lanka; “statement” means any word including abbreviation and initial, number, image (moving or otherwise), sound, symbol or other representation, or a combination of any of these. (2) Any word or expression used in this Act and defined in the Penal Code but not defined in this Act shall have the same meaning assigned to such word or expression in the Penal Code. 53. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency