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Official Secrets (Prohibited Place) Order, 1954

As Enacted Cited authorities 2 Cited in Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1954/243
Year1954

1954 No. 243

OFFICIAL SECRETS

The Official Secrets (Prohibited Place) Order, 1954

4thMarch 1954

15thMarch 1954

In pursuance of the power conferred upon me by section three of the Official Secrets Act, 1911(a), as amended by section ten of the Official Secrets Act, 1920(b), I hereby make the following Order:—

1. Each of the places specified in the Schedule to this Order, being a place belonging to or used for the purposes of Her Majesty, is declared to be a prohibited place for the purposes of section three of the Official Secrets Act, 1911, on the ground that information with respect thereto, or damage thereto, would be useful to an enemy.

2. This Order may be cited as the Official Secrets (Prohibited Place) Order, 1954, and shall come into operation on the fifteenth day of March, 1954.

David Maxwell Fyfe, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

Home Office, Whitehall.

4th March, 1954.

Article 1

SCHEDULE

1. The Department of Atomic Energy Calder Works, Calderbridge, Cumberland.

2. The Department of Atomic Energy Culcheth Laboratories, Wigshaw Lane, Culcheth, near Warrington, Lancashire.

(a) 1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 28.

(b) 10 & 11 Geo. 5....

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