The OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT, 1923

Sections

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  16. 16.[Repealed.].