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	Official Secrets Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1640
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1699
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Official_Secrets_Act (1713 words)

	Official Secrets Act 1923 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to this Act, helping the enemy state can be in the form of communicating a sketch, plan, model of an official secret, or of official codes or passwords, to the enemy.
		The Act only empowers persons in positions of authority to handle official secrets, and others who handle it in prohibited areas or outside them are liable for punishment.
		In the OSA clause 6, information from any governmental office is considered official information, hence it can be used to override freedom of information requests.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Official_Secrets_Act_1923 (630 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Official Secrets Act
		The Espionage Act was passed by the 65th United States Congress on June 15, 1917, during World War I. This act made it a crime, punishable by a $10,000 fine and 20 years in jail, for a person to convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere...
		Judicial review is the power of a court to review a law or an official act of a government employee or agent for constitutionality or for the violation of basic principles of justice.
		People working with secret information are commonly required to sign a statement to the effect that they agree to abide by the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Official-Secrets-Act (3885 words)

	Official Secrets Act - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Official Secrets Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		UK act of Parliament 1989, prohibiting the disclosure of confidential material from government sources by employees; it remains an absolute offence for a member or former member of the security and intelligence services (or those working closely with them) to disclose information about their work.
		Investigations under special warrants, issued by the secretary of state in such cases as terrorist acts and organized crime, are also to be regarded as absolutely secret, but the act limits the circumstances of their operation, and there is an independent commissioner and tribunal to prevent abuse of such powers.
		Official Secretary to the Governor-General of New Zealand
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Official+Secrets+Act (256 words)

	Official Secrets Act - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Official Secrets Act, act of 1989 intended to make more effective the existing law on national security in the United Kingdom.
		Unlike Heath’s single omnibus Industrial Relations Act, 1971, there was a series of measures that aimed to reduce trade union power and make the...
		Members of the Sons of Liberty, a secret society, were particularly active in opposing the imposition of the stamp tax, and they led a campaign of...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Official_Secrets_Act.html (146 words)

	Hexapedia - Official Secrets Act (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The phrase official secrets act may also be used to refer to statutes of a similar nature in other countries.
		The Official Secrets Act is the name of several Acts of the United Kingdom Parliament for the protection of official information, mainly related to national security.
		The latest revision is Official Secrets Act 1989 (1989 chapter 6), repealing section 2 of Official Secrets Act 1911.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Official_Secrets_Act (209 words)

	Official Secrets Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Official Secrets Act is the name of several Acts of the United Kingdom Parliament for the protection of official information related to national security.
		Official secrets: The use and abuse of the Act
		Official Secrets Act 1989: Elizabeth II Chapter 6
	www.freeglossary.com /Official_Secrets_Act (235 words)

	'Official Secrets Act should be repealed' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The second Administrative Reforms Commission has suggested that the Official Secrets Act (OSA) of 1923 should be repealed, saying it is incongruous with the regime of transparency in a democratic society.
		It stressed that the Information Commission should be entrusted with the authority and responsibility of monitoring the implementation of the RTI Act in all public authorities.
		A crucial law for the promotion of transparency and accountability from the government, the RTI Act of 2005 allows citizens to demand information (in the form of records, documents, samples, orders etc.) from the government regarding any government department or office.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060610/358554.html (283 words)

	GOANEWS - BY SANDESH PRABHUDESAI
		Though this clause is clubbed together with 'trade and commercial secrets' probably to confuse the interpreter, legal experts believe that it would be interpreted as the existing laws like Official Secrets Act etc, to deny information.
		Section 5 of the Officials Secrets Act, 1923 acts as a stumbling block on the flow of information as it bars all the government servants from passing on the information to any other person.
		When a state act on Right to Information is prepared, it can provide for repeal of section 5 of the Official Secrets Act, thereby provisions of the state act having full force of law", clarifies D'Costa.
	www.goanews.com /6aug97.htm (806 words)

	Official Secrets Act 1989 (c. 6)
		Acts of Parliament printed from this website are printed under the superintendence and authority of the Controller of HMSO being the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament.
		It should be noted that the right to reproduce the text of Acts of Parliament does not extend to the Queen's Printer imprints which should be removed from any copies of the Act which are issued or made available to the public.
		Braille copies of this Act can also be purchased at the same price as the print edition by contacting TSO Customer Services on 0870 600 5522 or e-mail:customer.services@tso.co.uk.
	www.hmso.gov.uk /acts/acts1989/Ukpga_19890006_en_1.htm (317 words)

	Black Laws of Bangladesh: THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT, 1923
		An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to official secrets.
		(2) If any person acts in contravention of the provisions of this section, he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
		Any person who attempts to commit or abets the commission of an offence under this Act shall be punishable with the same punishment, and be liable to be proceeded against in the same manner as if he had committed such offence.
	www.drishtipat.org /HRLaw/secrets.htm (1476 words)

	Official Secrets Act 1989 (c. 6)
		—(1) For the purposes of this Act a disclosure by—
		(5) In this section "official authorisation" and "official restriction" mean, subject to subsection (6) below, an authorisation or restriction duly given or imposed by a Crown servant or government contractor or by or on behalf of a prescribed body or a body of a prescribed class.
		(2) This Act and the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1939 may be cited together as the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1989.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /acts/acts1989/Ukpga_19890006_en_2.htm (3619 words)

	Official Secrets Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		is a broadly-worded law which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, as well as significant lesser penalties for the actions associated with the wrongful collection, possession or communication of official information.
		Any public officer can declare any material an official secret -- a certification which cannot be questioned in court.
		The act allows for arrest and detention without a warrant, and substantially reverses the burden of proof.
	www.freeanwar.net /news/osa.html (68 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Troubled history of Official Secrets Act
		The Official Secrets Act was drawn into further controversy in 1985.
		The high water mark of Lady Thatcher's Official Secrets' battle came in 1987 with the publication of Spycatcher by former MI5 officer Peter Wright.
		However a rare success for government enforcement of the Official Secrets Act was the conviction of Sarah Tisdall.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/216868.stm (600 words)

	Official Secrets Act
		The 1989 Act replaces section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, under which it was a criminal offence to disclose any official information without lawful authority.
		Offences of unauthorised disclosure under the Act may be tried either on indictment, on High Court or Sheriff Court, or summarily, in a Sheriff Court by a magistrates' court.
		For an offence to be committed under the Act, the disclosure of information must in general have damaged the national interest in the particular way, or ways, specified in the Act for the category of official information in question.
	www.ros.gov.uk /foi/staff_handbook/Official_secrets.htm (957 words)

	Bush's Unofficial Official Secrets Act:
		During the debate on criminalizing leaks, Senator William Borah, a Republican from Idaho, reminded his colleagues of the lesson of the infamous Sedition Act of 1789: "Once before in the history of this Government we undertook to establish something in the nature of an abridgment of speech and of the press.
		Newspeople understand that leaks are the lifeblood of Washington; that government officials leak information daily; and that the ship of state is unique in that it leaks from the top.
		The impact of the indictment was to criminalize Randal's leak.
	foi.missouri.edu /OSA/secretsact.html (2051 words)

	freedomforum.org: British journalists, whistleblowers rip Official Secrets Act
		LONDON — Britain's Official Secrets Act came under fire in London from leading journalists and whistleblowers who ran the risk of prosecution for reporting what British governments say threatens national security.
		At a Nov. 10 conference at The Freedom Forum European Center, critics of the act denounced the Labor Government of Tony Blair for reneging on commitments to ease or eliminate the strictures while his party was in opposition.
		Tony Geraghty, the first British journalist to be charged in 22 years under the Official Secrets Act, said he had been subjected to "a process of consistent harassment, pressure, and bullying" for writing about how intelligence agencies had used computer surveillance in Northern Ireland.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=3427 (844 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Risky business of prosecutions under the Official Secrets Act
		David Shayler, the former MI5 officer prosecuted under the 1989 Official Secrets Act for passing classified information and documents to the press, argued that the act was incompatible with article 10 of the European convention on human rights, the right to freedom of expression.
		She would have argued that she was acting to prevent the deaths and injuries caused by an illegal war with Iraq.
		Hence her lawyers' request for disclosure of the attorney general's full advice to the cabinet that the war was legal, based on earlier UN resolutions which Saddam Hussein had allegedly breached by refusing to get rid of his weapons of mass destruction.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /foi/story/0,9061,1156422,00.html (516 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Official Secrets Act to be repealed - Saturday \| June 10, 2006
		ONE of the last vestiges of colonialism in Jamaica, the 95-year-old Official Secrets Act, which has left a legacy of secrecy in the Government service, will be repealed, according to Information Minister Colin Campbell.
		According to Professor Munroe, four years after the Access to Information Act received the nod from Parliament, the Official Secrets Act of 1911 still remains on the books.
		Campbell a proposal to repeal the Official Secrets Act will be made as part of the process.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060610/lead/lead6.html (325 words)

	OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT, 1963 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		—This Act may be cited as the Official Secrets Act, 1963.
		"official document" includes a passport, official pass, permit, document of identity, certificate, licence or other similar document, whether or not completed or issued for use, and also includes an endorsement thereon or addition thereto;
		(2) In this section "official die, seal or stamp" means a die, seal or stamp of or belonging to, or used, made or provided by a Minister or State authority or any diplomatic or consular agent or other authority appointed by or acting under the authority of the Government.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /1963_1.html (1431 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Review of Official Secrets Act forced by the whistleblower intent on ...
		On the face of it, section 1 of the 1989 act is draconian; it prevents any member or former member of the security and intelligence agencies from saying anything, ever, about their work.
		This is the context in which Lord Goldsmith said: "The evidential deficiency related to the prosecution's inability within the current statutory framework to disprove the defence raised on the particular facts of the case." The phrase was repeated by the CPS.
		Lord Goldsmith gave his consent to the prosecution - as required under the Official Secrets Act for it to progress - while his view on a highly sensitive political issue, the Iraq war, would have featured prominently in the trial.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /iraq/story/0,12956,1157470,00.html (942 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 1 \| 1990: Secrets act gags whistleblowers
		The new Official Secrets Act replaces section two of the 1911 act, under which it was a criminal offence to disclose information without lawful authority.
		The new act makes it an offence for any member, or former member, of the security services to disclose official information about their work.
		The civil servant was charged, but acquitted, of breaking the 1911 secrets act after leaking two documents about the sinking of the Argentine ship, the General Belgrano, during the Falklands war.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_4251000/4251355.stm (464 words)

	Reform of the Official Secrets Act
		The government maintains that no public interest defence exists under Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act, and therefore no-one is being deprived of an existing defence.
		The basis of the defence was set in 1856 in a case where a former employee had informed the victims of a fraud carried out by his employer of what had taken place.
		"It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under this Act to prove that the disclosure...of the information..was in the public interest insofar as he had reasonable cause to believe that it indicated the existence of crime, fraud, abuse of authority, neglect in the performance of official duty or other misconduct".
	www.cfoi.org.uk /osareform.html (5380 words)

	Official Secrets Act 1989 (c. 6) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Schedule 1, the amend- ments of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911.
		In Schedule 3, the words from "For the purposes of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911" to "shall be deemed to be a contract with Her Majesty".
		In section 3(5) the words "Except for the purposes of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 (wrongful communication of information)".
	www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk /acts/acts1989/Ukpga_19890006_en_4.htm (161 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Legal gag on Bush-Blair war row
		The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq.
		The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, last night referred editors to newspaper reports yesterday that described the contents of a memo purporting to be at the centre of charges against two men under the secrets act.
		Charges under the secrets act have to have the consent of the attorney-general.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1648590,00.html (593 words)

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		So many high-ranking officials could theoretically get tossed in the brig under a sweeping new law about to be signed by President Clinton.
		But the full implications of what critics are calling America's first Official Secrets Act remain unclear - for whistle-blowers, for journalists, and for security officials themselves.
		Once, he was slapped with a security infraction and potential loss of his clearance for writing a story lab officials claimed relied on classified information.
	shns.scripps.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=SECRETS-10-23-00&cat=WW (714 words)

	GOP senators support implementation of Official Secrets Act
		According to Secrecy News reports, the new Bond bill is identical to the controversial anti-leak legislation sponsored by Senator Richard Shelby in the FY 2001 Intelligence Authorization Act that was vetoed by President Clinton in November 2000.
		His strong support of this new repressive bill, which takes away Congress’ right to know in order to exercise its oversight authority, goes a long way to demonstrate why he is an incumbent candidate unfit to represent our people and their interest and rights guaranteed under the constitution.
		Santorum acts as an extension of the executive branch that seeks to override the separation of powers and expand its power; not as an elected senator who has been vested with authority and a position to serve his constituents,” stated Sibel Edmonds, NSWBC Founder and Director.
	onlinejournal.com /artman/publish/article_1073.shtml (1034 words)

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