(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 bedy or

body of a prescribed class.

(6) In relation to section 6 above "official' authorisation"

includes an authorisation duly given by or on behalf of the

territory, State or organisation concerned or, in the case of an

organisation, a member of it.

8.

Safeguarding of information

(1) Where a Crown servant or government contractor, by virtue

of his position as such, has in his possession or under his control

any document or other article which it would be an offence under any

of the foregoing provisions of this Act for him to disclose without

lawful authority, he is guilty of an offence if -

(a) being a Crown servant, he retains the document or

article contrary to his official duty; or

(b)

being a government contractor, he fails to comply

with an official direction or the return or disposal

of the document or article,

or if he fails to take such care to prevent the unauthorised

disclosure of the document or article as a person in his position

may reasonably be expected to take.

an

(2) It is a defence for a Crown servant charged with

offence under subsection (1)(a) above to prove that at the time of

the alleged offence he believed that he was acting in accordance

with his official duty and had no reasonable cause to bel eve

otherwise.

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