THE MYANMAR OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT. (2) On a prosecution for an offence punishable under this section with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years, it shall not be necessary to show that the accused person was guilty of any particular act tending to show a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, and, notwithstanding that no such act is proved against him, he may be convicted if, from the circumstances of the case or his conduct or his known character as proved, it appears that his purpose was a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State; and if any sketch, plan, model, article, note, document, or information relating to or used in any prohibited place, or relating to anything in such a place, or any secret official code or password is made, obtained, collected, recorded, published or communicated by any person other than a person acting under lawful authority, and from the circumstances of the case or his conduct or his known character as proved it appears that his purpose was a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, such sketch, plan, model, article, note, document or information shall be presumed to have been made, obtained, collected, recorded, published or communicated for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State. Communications with foreign agents to be evidence of commission of certain offences. 4. (1) In any proceedings against a person for an offence under section 3, the fact that he has been in communication with, or attempted to communicate with, a foreign agent, whether within or without the Union of Myanmar, shall be relevant for the purpose of proving that he has, for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, obtained or attempted to obtain information which is calculated to be or might be, or is intended to be, directly or indirectly, useful to an enemy. (2) For the purpose of this section, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision,(a) a person may be presumed to have been in communication with a foreign agent if(i) he has, either within or without the Union of Myanmar, visited the address of a foreign agent or consorted or associated with a foreign agent, or (ii) either within or without the Union of Myanmar, the name or address of, or any other information regarding a foreign agent has been found in his possession, or has been obtained by him from any other person; (b) the expression “ foreign agent” includes any person who is or has been or in respect of whom it appears that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting him of being or having been employed by a foreign power, either directly or indirectly for the purpose of committing an act, either within or without the Union of Myanmar, prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, or who has or is reasonably suspected of having, either within or without the Union of Myanmar, committed, or attempted to commit, such an act in the interests of a foreign power; (c) any address, whether within or without the Union of Myanmar, in respect of which it appears that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting it of being an address used for the receipt of communications intended for a foreign agent, or any address at which a foreign agent resides, or to which he resorts for the purpose of giving or receiving communications, or at which he carries on any business, may Page 3 of 8