Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] secrets act " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did suggest that the principles of confidentiality should be preserved for a period of fifteen years instead of thirty , but that there should be no new machinery for enforcement since offenders would carry the risk of social and political sanctions , and , of course , if they came within the rubric of any existing legal restraint , such as the Official Secrets Act , they would run the risk of legal proceedings . |
| 2 | This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who |
| 3 | And even if an uncommissioned but critical ethnography is not considered to be in breach of the Official Secrets Act , it will most likely be construed as structural espionage and lie in breach of the Police Discipline Code as set out in Police Regulations . |
| 4 | The use of the Official Secrets Act against government employees and others became more widespread . |
| 5 | She was not prosecuted ( though clearly she could have been ) under section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , possibly because the Government had just had its nose bloodied by a jury in the Clive Ponting trial , a case we deal with in Chapter 5 . |
| 6 | Six members of the Committee of One Hundred , who had planned to enter the air base and immobilize it by sitting in front of its planes , were charged with conspiracy to commit offences under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 . |
| 7 | Unlike in the early 1960s , section 1 of the Official Secrets Act was not employed against the protesters at any point during this period though clearly it could have been . |
| 8 | He established and chaired a Cabinet committee on reform of the discredited section 2 of the Official Secrets Act , 1911 . |
| 9 | Thus we have the reform of Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 . |
| 10 | The Palace was told that the only way to guarantee protection of her broadcast in future was to make it part of the Official Secrets Act and bring it under Government control . |
| 11 | The full power of the Official Secrets Act and the threat of prosecution and loss of pension is ranged against any man who dares to speak out . |
| 12 | Indeed they were found when Parliament enacted section 1(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1989 : |
| 13 | Mr Clive Ponting 's acquittal by a jury in February 1985 , after he had admitted to passing official Government papers to a person not authorised to receive them , the very essence of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , and despite the most explicit summing up by the trial judge that they should convict , raises the question of what motivated the jury . |
| 14 | The airfield was a ‘ prohibited place ’ under s. 3 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 . |
| 15 | In the trial of Clive Ponting the judge directed the jury that the phrase ‘ in the interests of the state ’ in s. 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 means ‘ in the interests of the Government of the day ’ . |
| 16 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 17 | In August 1984 , Mr Clive Ponting , a senior official at the Ministry of Defence , was charged with sending two documents to a Labour MP , Mr Tam Dalyell , without authority and thus contrary to Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 18 | You must keep to the requirements of the Official Secrets Act , Data Protection Act and the Disclosure of Information Guide . |
| 19 | Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 was discredited by the jury acquittal of the editor of the " Sunday Telegraph " for publishing a confidential army report about the Biafran war which indicated that ministerial statements in Parliament were false . |
| 20 | Criminal offences which are triable by jury include most breaches of the Official Secrets Act , the Prevention of Terrorism Act , criminal libel , obscenity , blasphemy , sedition and incitement to disaffection . |
| 21 | When Richard Crossman described secrecy as the British disease , he was not merely referring to the terms of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 22 | In the late 1970s another insider academic experienced this autocratic preference for silence when he was served a notice under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 23 | Sir Peter Imbert , the Met Commissioner , has written to Met officers warning that he would take proceedings under the Official Secrets Act against police who break an internal discipline code which prohibits ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ . |
| 24 | Blake pleaded guilty to the five charges against him under the Official Secrets Act which referred to him having passed on information since November 1951 . |
| 25 | However , on 4 October 1987 , Barrie Penrose , a very experienced journalist with the Sunday Times , identified these two as Michael Randle and Pat Pottle , members of the left-wing radical group , the Committee of 100 , not CND , and in February 1962 both were sent to prison for 18 months for offences under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 26 | Through Special Branch it arranged for Inspector Lamport , of the Portsmouth CID , to visit the Sallyport Hotel two days later , on 21 April , where , in front of the astonished manager , Edward Richman , Lamport tore out from the hotel register the pages bearing the signatures of Crabb and ‘ Smith ’ , and threatened Richman with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if he told anybody anything about the affair . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , by the Telecommunications Act 1984 , section 2 was extended to BT employees ( that is to say , private sector employees ) and it is now an offence under the Official Secrets Act 1989 for Crown servants ( which could be extended to cover BT employees engaged in this work ) to disclose various types of information relating to telephone-tapping . |
| 28 | But , as civil servants have discovered in the past , prosecution under the Official Secrets Act may be brought even where the civil servant ( or the engineer in this case ) is exposing improper or even illegal conduct by the executive . |
| 29 | A COUPLE held under the Official Secrets Act were still being quizzed by Special Branch detectives last night . |
| 30 | Michael John Smith , 43 , from Kingston , Surrey , was accused under the Official Secrets Act . |