Official Secrets Act 1920
1 Unauthorised use of uniforms; falsification of reports, forgery, personation, and false documents.
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.
4 Power to require the production of telegrams.
5 Registration and regulation of persons carrying on the business of receiving postal packets.
6 Duty of giving information as to commission of offences.
7 Attempts, incitements, &c.
8 Provisions as to trial and punishment of offences.
9 Amendments of principal Act in relation to munitions of war.
10 Minor amendments of principal Act.
11 Short title, construction, and repeal.
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2 Provisions of Principal Act Repealed.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...

Official Secrets Act 1920

1920 c.75

An Act to amend the Official Secrets Act 1911.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I1

Act wholly in force at Royal Assent.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Act extended by S.I. 1972/971, art. 4, Sch. 1 Pt. A

C2

Act extended by S.I. 1972/971, Sch. 1