5 Information resulting from unauthorised disclosures or entrusted in confidence
Official Secrets Act 1989 (1989 c 6) | Legislation

5  Information resulting from unauthorised disclosures or entrusted in confidence

(1)     Subsection (2) below applies where—

(a)     any information, document or other article protected against disclosure by the foregoing provisions of this Act has come into a person's possession as a result of having been—

(i)     disclosed (whether to him or another) by a Crown servant or government contractor without lawful authority; or

(ii)     entrusted to him by a Crown servant or government contractor on terms requiring it to be held in confidence or in circumstances in which the Crown servant or government contractor could reasonably expect that it would be so held; or

(iii)     disclosed (whether to him or another) without lawful authority by a person to whom it was entrusted as mentioned in sub-paragraph (ii) above; and

(b)

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