specified organisation, or as a person who is or has been employed under a
person who holds or has held such an office or contract,
does any of the following:
(i) communicates directly or indirectly any such information or thing as
aforesaid to any foreign Power other than a foreign Power to whom he is
duly authorised to communicate it, or to any person other than a person to
whom he is authorised to communicate it or to whom it is his duty to
communicate it;
(ii) uses any such information or thing as aforesaid for the benefit of any
foreign Power other than a foreign Power for whose benefit he is
authorised to use it, or in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interests
of Singapore;
(iii) retains in his possession or control any such thing as aforesaid when he has
no right to retain it, or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it, or fails to
comply with all lawful directions issued by lawful authority with regard to
the return or disposal thereof;
(iv) fails to take reasonable care of, or so conducts himself as to endanger the
safety or secrecy of, any such information or thing as aforesaid,
that person shall be guilty of an offence.
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(2) If any person receives any secret official code word, countersign, password, or
any photograph, drawing, plan, model, article, note, document or information knowing,
or having reasonable ground to believe, at the time when he receives it, that the code
word, countersign, password, photograph, drawing, plan, model, article, note, document
or information is communicated to him in contravention of this Act, he shall be guilty of
an offence unless he proves that the communication to him of the code word,
countersign, password, photograph, drawing, plan, model, article, note, document or
information was contrary to his desire.
(3) In any proceedings against a person for an offence under this section, where it is
proved that that person is or has been in the employment or service of any foreign Power
or government in breach of any undertaking which he has made with the Government or
any specified organisation, he shall be deemed to be in possession or control of such
information or thing as is referred to in subsection (1) and to have unlawfully
communicated that information to a foreign Power or to have used that information or
thing in a manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of Singapore.
[27/2001]
(4) In subsection (3), “undertaking” means any undertaking in writing which a public
officer or any other person has made with the Government or any specified organisation
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