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    The Official Secrets Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 75) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act was repealed by and replaced with the...
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    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...
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    An Official Secrets Act (OSA) is legislation that provides for the protection of state secrets and official information, mainly related to national security...
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    8(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1920 Evidence and presumptions See section 1(2) of this Act and section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1920. This is an...
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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...
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    century". The act repeals and replaces the Official Secrets Act 1911, Official Secrets Act 1920 and Official Secrets Act 1939. The act introduces new...
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    classified as an official secret. The legislation is based on the Official Secrets Act of the United Kingdom. After criticism of the act for lacking clarity...
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    British state. Official Secrets Act Official Secrets Act 1911 Official Secrets Act 1920 Official Secrets Act 1939 Official Secrets Act 1989 This short...
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  • an offense against the Official Secrets Acts 1911 and 1920 This offense is created by section 7 of the Official Secrets Act 1920. Inciting a child under...
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    presumably representing the secret services, and threatened with prosecution under section 6 of the Official Secrets Act 1920. Sandys reported the matter...
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  • golden rule in a broader sense in Adler v George (1964). Under the Official Secrets Act 1920, it was an offence to obstruct an armed forces member "in the...
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  • example of the latter approach is Adler v George (1964). Under the Official Secrets Act 1920 it was an offence to obstruct HM Forces "in the vicinity of" a...
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  • the time was that a warrant was needed under section 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1920, similar to that needed to intercept mail. Later that day, Prime...
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  • (Married Women) Act 1895 Finance Act 1920 Motor Car Act 1896 Motor Car Act 1903 Development and Road Improvement Funds Act 1909 Official Secrets Act 1911 Corn...
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  • session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in...
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    States entered World War I in April 1917. It was based on the Defense Secrets Act of 1911, especially the notions of obtaining or delivering information...
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    Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 does not explicitly set out the secret ballot, but a reading of sections 206, 207, 325, and 327 of the Act would imply its assumption...
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    oversight arrangements. All employees of the service are bound by the Official Secrets Act. In certain circumstances, officers handling agents or informers...
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    The Mann Act, previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, is a United States federal law, passed June 25, 1910 (ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825; codified...
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    secret for many years. In 1932, Compton MacKenzie was fined under the Official Secrets Act for elements of his book Greek Memories. Among these offences, according...
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  • Irvin C. Scarbeck (category 1920 births)
    Chambers Scarbeck (born May 8, 1920) was a US State Department official who was convicted of giving information to Polish UB (secret police) during the Cold...
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    The Wall Street bombing was an act of terrorism on Wall Street at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and...
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    of Order in Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 31) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 9 August 1920 to address the collapse...
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  • deported. In July 1920, Palmer's once-promising Democratic Party bid for the U.S. presidency failed. Wall Street was bombed on September 16, 1920, near Federal...
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    The Secret Court of 1920 was an ad hoc disciplinary tribunal of five administrators at Harvard University formed to investigate charges of homosexual activity...
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    part of Ulster should be excluded from it (see Government of Ireland Act 1920). The Act divided Ireland along established county lines (see Partition of Ireland)...
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  • 1949 and 1952, and the Parliament of India since 1952. Apart from Finance Act, there are 891 Acts which are still in force as on 01.11.2024, majority of...
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    Supreme Ruler of Russia (category 1920 disestablishments in Russia)
    the office, which was finally declared extinct on 4 April 1920. On September 23, 1918, the “Act on the Formation of the All-Russian Supreme Power” of the...
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    The Enabling Act of 1933 (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz), officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich (lit. 'Law to Remedy the Distress...
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    Handcuff Secrets (1907) The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (1908), a debunking study of Robert-Houdin's alleged abilities. Magical Rope Ties and Escapes (1920) Miracle...
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