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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 25, 1940.
(3) at the end of sub-section (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph―
For the purposes of this sub-section any die, seal, stamp or paper shall be taken to be an official die, seal or stamp, or official paper, as the case may be, if, but only if. it is specially designed for use in His Majesty's service, in the service of a foreign government or for the purposes of a police force ".
3.(1) The maximum penalty that may be imposed on a person convicted of an offence under section five of the Official Secrets Act, 1920 (which provides for the registra- tion and regulation of persons carrying on the business of receiving postal packets), shall be imprisonment for a term of three months and a fine of fifty pounds, and accordingly in sub-section (4) of that section for the words "one month' and the words "ten pounds" there shall be respectively three months' and the words "fifty
substituted the words
pounds".
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(2) Notwithstanding anything in section eight of the Official Secrets Act, 1911, a prosecution for an offence under section five of the Official Secrets Act, 1920, may, in England and Northern Ireland, be instituted by any constable.
4. In section seven of the Official Secrets Act, 1920, for the words and does any act there shall be substituted the words "or does any act”.
5. In section eight of the Official Secrets Act, 1911, and in sub-section (2) of section eight of the Official Secrets Act, 1920 (which provisions respectively require the consent of the Attorney General to the institution of prosecutions, and to the summary trial of misdemeanours, under those Acts). references to the Attorney General shall be construed as including references to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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21st October, 1940.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.