Official Secrets Act 1920
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1920 c. 75 |
[10 & 11 GEO. 5.] Official Secrets Act, 1920. [Cii 75.]
An Act to amend the Official Secrets Act, 1911.
[23rd December 1920.] A.D. 1920.
BEit enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:
1. If any person for the purpose of gaining admission, or of
assisting any other person to gain admission, to a prohibited place,
within the meaning of the Official Secrets Act, 1911 (hereinafter
referred to as "the principal Act"), or for any other purpose
prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State within the meaning
of the said Act—
(a) uses or wears, without lawful authority, any naval, military,
air-force, police, or other official uniform, or any uniform so
nearly resembling the same as to be calculated to deceive, or
falsely represents himself to be a person who is or has been
entitled to use or wear any such uniform; or
(b) orally, or in writing in any declaration or application, or in any
document signed by him or on his behalf, knowingly makes or
connives at the making of any false statement or any omission;
or
(c) forges, alters, or tampers with any passport or any naval, military,
air-force, police, or official pass, permit, certificate, licence, or
other document of a similar character (hereinafter in this
section referred to as an official document), or uses or has in
his possession any such forged, altered, or irregular document;
or
(d) personates, or falsely represents himself to be a person holding, or
in the employment of a person holding office under His
Majesty, or to be or not to be a person to whom an official
document or secret official code word or pass word has been
duly issued or communicated, or with intent to obtain an
official document, secret official code word or pass word,
whether for himself or any other person, knowingly makes any
false statement; or A1
Unauthorised
use of uniforms;
falsification of
reports, forgery,
personation,
and false
documents.
1 & 2 Geo. 5.
c. 28.
CHAPTER 75.
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