| 词条 | Official Secrets Act 1939 |
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|short_title=The Official Secrets Act 1939[1] |parliament=Parliament of the United Kingdom |long_title=An Act to amend section six of the Official Secrets Act 1920. |statute_book_chapter=2 & 3 Geo. 6 c. 121 |introduced_by= |territorial_extent= |royal_assent=23 November 1939 |commencement=23 November 1939[2] |repeal_date= |amendments= |related_legislation= |repealing_legislation= |status= |original_text=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1939/121/contents/enacted |revised_text=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1939/121/contents |legislation_history= |}} The Official Secrets Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6 c. 121) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It substitutes a new section 6 into the Official Secrets Act 1920, which limits the scope of that offence to offences under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 (it had formerly applied to all offences under the Official Secrets Act 1911 and to all offences under that Act). It was enacted in reaction to the "Sandys affair" in 1938, when Duncan Sandys MP was "threatened" with prosecution under section 6 in an attempt to get him to disclose who had given him information about the inadequate state of the air defences around London. See also
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1. ^This short title was given to this Act by section 2(1) of this Act. {{UK legislation}}{{UK-statute-stub}}2. ^This Act came into force on the date on which it received royal assent because no other date was provided: Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793 2 : United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1939|Classified information in the United Kingdom |
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