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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 18, 1913.

183

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 119. The following Act which is applicable to Hongkong is published for general information.

18th April, 1913.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.

Section.

OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT, 1911.

[1 & 2 GEO. 5. Cu. 28.]

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

1. Penalties for spying.

2. Wrongful communication, &c., of information.

3. Definition of prohibited place.

4. Attempts to commit offence, or incitement to commit offence, under Act.

5. Person charged with felony under Act may be convicted of misdemeanour

under Act.

6. Power to arrest.

7. Penalty for harbouring spies.

8. Restriction on prosecution.

9. Search warrants.

10. Extent of Act and place of trial of offence.

11. Saving for laws of British possessions.

12. Interpretation.

13. Short title and repeal.

CHAPTER

28.

A.D. 1911.

An Act to re-enact the Official Secrets Act, 1889, with Amendments.

[22nd August, 1911.]

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :-

1.-(1.) If any person for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests Penalties

of the State-

(a.) approaches or is in the neighbourhood of, or enters any prohibited

place within the meaning of this Act; or

(b.) makes any sketch, plan, model, or note which is calculated to be or might be or is intended to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy; or

(c.) obtains or communicates to any other person any sketch, plan, model, article, or note, or other document or information which is calculated to be or might be or is intended to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy;

he shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to penal servitude for any term not less than three years and not exceeding seven years.

for spying.