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The Official Secrets Act 1989 (c. 6) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repeals and replaces section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, thereby removing the public interest defence created by that section.
The Official Secrets Act (Canada) 1939 replaced the Criminal Code provisions and utilised the provisions of the British Official Secrets Acts 1911 and 1920. Amendments were made in 1950, 1967, 1970 and 1973. The Official Secrets Act (Canada) 1981 was the final version of that law adopted by the House of Commons.
Disclosure of such information is assumed to be above the threshold for prosecution under the Official Secrets Act 1989. SECRET This marking is used for information which needs protection against serious threats, and which could cause serious harm if compromised—such as threats to life, compromising major crime investigations, or harming ...
Here, the PA news agency looks at the legislation which is designed to protect state secrets and national security.
SECRET is a big step up from OFFICIAL; government bodies are warned against being overcautious and applying much stricter rules when OFFICIAL would be sufficient. People with routine access to SECRET information should usually have SC clearance. SECRET data may often be exempt from FOIA disclosure.
The Official Secrets Act 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5.c. 28) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It replaced the Official Secrets Act 1889. [3]The Act was introduced in response to public alarm at reports of wide-scale espionage, some of them fomented by popular novels and plays that dramatized the threat, supposedly from Germany, at a time of a rapid naval expansion.
Classified information has been governed by various Official Secrets Acts, the latest being the Official Secrets Act 1989.Until 1989 requested information was routinely kept secret invoking the public interest defence; this was largely removed by the 1989 Act.
The Official Secrets Act 1939 [1] (2 & 3 Geo. 6.c. 121) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It substituted a new section 6 into the Official Secrets Act 1920, which limited the scope of that offence to offences under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 (it had formerly applied to all offences under the Official Secrets Act 1911 and to all offences under that Act).