THE MYANMAR OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT.
be presumed to be the address of a foreign agent, and communications addressed to such an address to be communications with a foreign
agent.
<Amendment 18.06.1989>
Wrongful communication, etc., of information.
5. (1) If any person having in his possession or control any secret official code or password or any sketch, plan, model, article, note, document or
information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or relates to anything in such a place, or which has been made or obtained in
contravention of this Act, or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under the Government, or which he has
obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who holds or has held office under the Government, or as a person who
holds or has held a contract made on behalf of the Government, or as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held
such an office or contract(a) wilfully communicates the code or password, sketch, plan, model, article, note, document or information to any person other than a person to
whom he is authorised to communicate it, or a Court of Justice or a person to whom it is , in the interests of the State, his duty to
communicate it; or
(b) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety of the State; or
(c) retains the sketch, plan, model, article, note or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it, or when it is contrary to
his duty to retain it, or wilfully fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof; or
(d) fails to take reasonable care of, or so conducts himself as to endanger the safety of, the sketch, plan, model, article, note, document, secret
official code or password or information;
he shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
(2) If any person voluntarily receives any secret official code or password or any sketch, plan, model, article, note, document or information
knowing or having reasonable ground to believe, at the time when he receives it, that the code, password, sketch, plan, model, article, note,
document or information is communicated in contravention of this Act, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
(3) If any person having in his possession or control any sketch, plan, model, article, note, document or information which relates to munitions of
war, communicates it, directly or indirectly, to any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State, he
shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine,
or with both.
Unauthorised use of uniforms, falsification of reports, forgery, personation and false documents.
6. (1) If any person for the purpose of gaining admission or of assisting any other person to gain admission to a prohibited place or for any other
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