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Official Secrets Act 1935. 2020 REVISED EDITION. This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021. An Act to prevent the disclosure of official documents and information. [5 July 1935] Short title. 1. This Act is the Official Secrets Act 1935. Interpretation. 2.—
Sep 23, 2019 · If there is one “secret” that you should uncover for yourself, then that is Singapore’s Official Secrets Act (OSA). Enacted to prevent the disclosure of official documents and information, the 19 sections in the OSA describe what such disclosure involves and what can happen if you commit an offence under the OSA.
—(1) If any person having in his possession or control any secret official code word, countersign or password, or any photograph, drawing, plan, model, article, note, document or information which —
An Act to prevent the disclosure of official documents and information. [5th July 1935] Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Official Secrets Act. 30.11.2012 1 2012 Ed.
In Singapore, the Official Secrets Act (Cap. 213, 2012 Rev. Ed.) prohibits the disclosure of official documents and information. [8] [9] The Act was first introduced to Singapore in 1935 as the Official Secrets Ordinance. [10]
Nov 14, 2017 · SINGAPORE — The recent case of a Housing and Development Board (HDB) officer who allegedly communicated confidential information to a journalist has shone the spotlight on the wide-ranging nature...
Dec 20, 2017 · The Official Secrets Act or OSA is a law to prevent the disclosure of official documents and information. Many countries have such legislation in one form or other.
Apr 20, 2021 · The Police will be charging a 38-year-old woman and a 39-year-old man on 21 April 2021 for offences of wrongful communication of information under the Official Secrets Act.
Dec 21, 2022 · THE STATUTES OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT 1935. 2020 REVISED EDITION. This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021. Prepared and Published by THE LAW REVISION COMMISSION UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE REVISED EDITION OF THE LAWS ACT 1983.
The Official Secrets Act (OSA) is basically an act which prohibits the disclosure of official documents and information. Although it targets spying, all prosecutions that have taken place since it came about in 1935 have fallen under section 5.
