Official Secrets Act 1920

SCHEDULES.

Section 10.

FIRST SCHEDULE Minor Amendments of Principal Act

Enactment.	Nature of Amendment.
s. 1 (1) (a)	After the word " approaches " there shall be inserted the words " inspects, passes over. "
s. 1(1) (c)	After the word " obtains " there shall be inserted the words " collects, records, or publishes, " and after the words " any other person " there shall be inserted the words " any secret official code word, or pass word, or. "
s. 1 (2)	After the words " in such a place " there shall be inserted the words " or any secret official code word or pass word. "
	After the word " obtained," in both places where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words " collected, recorded, published. "
s. .2(1)	After the words " possession or control" there shall be inserted the words " any secret official code word, or pass word, or. "
	After the Words " which he has obtained" there shall be inserted the words " or to which he has had access. "
	After the words " communicates the " there shall be inserted the words " code word, pass word. "
	After the words "his duty to retain it" there shall be inserted the words " or fails to comply with all directions " issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or " disposal thereof."
	After paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following paragraph :— “or (c) Fails to take reasonable care of, or so conducts himself as to endanger the safety of the sketch, plan, model, article, note, document, secret official code or pass word or information.”
s. 2 (2)	Before the word "sketch" where that word first occurs, there shall be inserted the words " secret official codeword, or pass Word, or. "
	Before the word " sketch " in other places where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words " code word, pass Word. "
s. 3	For paragraph (a) the following paragraph shall be substituted :— “Any work of defence, arsenal, naval or air force establishment or station, factory, dockyard, mine, minefield, camp, ship, or aircraft belonging to or occupied by or on behalf of His Majesty, or any telegraph, telephone, wireless or signal station, or office so belonging or occupied, and any place belonging to or occupied by or on behalf of His Majesty and used for the purpose of building, repairing, making, or storing any munitions of war, or any sketches, plans, models, or documents relating thereto, or for the purpose of getting any metals, oil, or minerals of use in time of war."”
	In paragraphs (b) and (d) for the words " ship, arms, or other materials or instruments of use in time of war," in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words . " munitions of war, " and for the word " plans," in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words " sketches, models, plans. "
	In paragraph (b) after the word " repaired " there shall be inserted the word " gotten. "
	In paragraph (c) after the words " any place belonging to " there shall be inserted the words " or used for the purposes of. "
	In paragraphs (c) and (d) for tho words " by a Secretary of State " in both places where those words occur, there shall be substituted the words " by order of a Secretary of State. "
s. 7	For the words " wilfully refuses " there shall be substituted the Words " wilfully omits or refuses. "
s. 12	After the words " like or superior rank" there shall be inserted the words " and any person upon whom the " powers of a superintendent of police are for the purpose " of this Act conferred by a Secretary of State."

Section 11.

SECOND SCHEDULE Provisions of Principal Act repealed

• In subsection (1) of section one the words " and shall he liable " to penal servitude for any term not less than three years and not exceeding seven years."

• Subsection (3) of section two.

• Section four.

• In section seven the words "and liable to imprisonment with or " without hard labour for a term not exceeding one year, or to a fine, " or to both imprisonment and a fine."