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Official Secrets Act

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1989Date range
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Chronological records

1989

Margaret Hilda Thatcher1989

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Official Secrets Act 1989 replaces parts of earlier secrecy law with specific disclosure offences

Names involved

Margaret Hilda Thatcher

Provenance

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