Official Secrets 13 (2) Any person who fails to comply with the requirement of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term not less than one year but not exceeding five years. Placing in confidence of foreign agent 7B. Any person who does any act so as to place or likely to place himself in the confidence of any foreign agent shall be guilty of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term not less than one year but not exceeding five years. Wrongful communication, etc., of official secret 8. (1) If any person having in his possession or control any official secret or any secret official code word, countersign or password which— (a) relates to or is used in a prohibited place or relates to anything in such a place; (b) relates to munitions of war and to other apparatus, equipment and machinery which are used in the maintenance of the safety and security of Malaysia; (c) has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act; (d) has been entrusted in confidence to him by any public officer; or (e) he has made or obtained, or to which he has had access, owing to his position as a person who holds or has held office in the public service, 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 by or 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 to any foreign country other than any foreign country to which he is duly authorized to communicate it, or any person other than a person to whom he is duly authorized to communicate it or to whom it is his duty to communicate it;