# Official Secrets Act 1920 (repealed)

10 & 11 Geo. 5 c. 75 · enacted 23 December 1920 · revised to 20 December 2023

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## Introductory text

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## 1 Unauthorised use of uniforms; falsification of reports, forgery, personation, and false documents.

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## 2 Communications with foreign agents to be evidence of commission of certain offences.

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## 3 Interfering with officers of the police or members of His Majesty’s forces.

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## 4 Power to require the production of telegrams.

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## 6 Duty of giving information as to commission of offences.

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## 7 Attempts, incitements, &c.

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## 8 Provisions as to trial and punishment of offences.

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## 9 Amendments of principal Act in relation to munitions of war.

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## 10 Minor amendments of principal Act.

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## 11 Short title, construction, and repeal.

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## Schedule 1 

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## Schedule 2: Provisions of Principal Act Repealed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/10-11/75 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/official-secrets-act-1920-repealed
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

