http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/10-11/75/contentsOfficial Secrets Act 1920 (repealed)An Act to amend the Official Secrets Act 1911.1978-06-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-01-22Expert Participation2023-12-20 Official Secrets Act 1920 (repealed)1Unauthorised use of uniforms; falsification of reports, forgery, personation, and false documents.2Communications with foreign agents to be evidence of commission of certain offences.3Interfering with officers of the police or members of His Majesty’s forces.4Power to require the production of telegrams.5 Registration and regulation of persons carrying on the business of receiving postal packets. 6Duty of giving information as to commission of offences.7Attempts, incitements, &c.8Provisions as to trial and punishment of offences.9Amendments of principal Act in relation to munitions of war.10Minor amendments of principal Act.11Short title, construction, and repeal.SCHEDULE 1SCHEDULE 2Provisions of Principal Act Repealed.. . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . ....Official Secrets Act 1920 (repealed)1920 c.75. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Act repealed (20.12.2023) by National Security Act 2023 (c. 32), s. 100(1), Sch. 18 para. 2 (with s. 97); S.I. 2023/1272, reg. 2(f)
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