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OS Act

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  • 1Short title, extent and application
  • 2Definitions
  • 3Penalties for spying
  • 4Communications with foreign agents to be evidence of commission of certain offences
  • 5Wrongful communication, etc., of information
  • 6Unauthorised use of uniforms; falsification of reports, forgery, personation, and falsedocuments
  • 7Interfering with officers of the police or members of the Armed Forces of the Union
  • 8Duty of giving information as to commission of offences
  • 9Attempts, incitements, etc
  • 10Penalty for harbouring spies
  • 11Search-warrants
  • 12Provisions of section 337 of Act 5 of 1898 to apply to offences under sections 3, 5 and 7
  • 13Restriction of trial of offences
  • 14Exclusion of public from proceedings
  • 15Offences by companies
  • 16Repealed.
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OS Act 1

Section 1 · Short title, extent and application

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1[1. Short title, extent and application.--(1) This Act may be called the Official Secrets Act, 1923.

(2) It extends to the whole of India and applies also to servants of the Government and to citizens of India outside India].


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