The Official Secrets Act 1989 (Prescription) (Amendment) Order 1993

Made: 22nd March 1993

Coming into force: 23rd March 1993

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 12(1)(f) and 13(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1989[^f00001], a draft of this instrument having been laid before Parliament and having been approved by each House of Parliament, I hereby make the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Official Secrets Act 1989 (Prescription) (Amendment) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 23rd March 1993.

2

The Official Secrets Act 1989 (Prescription) Order 1990[^f00002] shall be amended by adding to the first column of Schedule 1 to that Order the bodies set out in the first column of the Schedule to this Order and by adding to the second column of Schedule 1 to that Order the classes of members or employees of those bodies set out in the second column of the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Kenneth Clarke — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 22nd March 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends The Official Secrets Act 1989 (Prescription) Order 1990 by adding to those who become Crown servants for the purposes of the Act, the persons listed in the second column of the Schedule. Accordingly, the information which they hold by virtue of their position as persons prescribed by this Order becomes information to which the Act applies if it otherwise falls within the relevant sections (1 to 4 and 8), and such persons will be treated as if they were Crown servants for the purposes of the provisions of the Act relating to the prosecution of offenders and the authorisation of disclosures.

This Order comes into force on 23rd March 1993.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1989 c. 6.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1990/200.