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Official Secrets Act 1920
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2. Communications with foreign agents to be evidence of commission of certain offences.
3. Interfering with officers of the police or members of His Majesty’s forces.
5. Registration and regulation of persons carrying on the business of receiving postal packets.
9. Amendments of principal Act in relation to munitions of war.
Provisions of Principal Act Repealed.
In subsection (1) of section one the words “any shall...
Subsection (3) of section two.
Section four.
In section seven the words “and liable to imprisonment with...
1. Unauthorised use of uniforms; falsification of reports, forgery, personation, and false documents.
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