DSMA-Notice
Sign in to saveAlso known as D-Notice, DA-Notice, Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice, Defence Advisory Notice, Defence Notice
In the United Kingdom, D-Notices, officially known since 2015 as DSMA-Notices (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notices), are official requests to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security.
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- Instance of
- notice
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- inception
- 1912-00-00
- described at URL
- www.dsma.uk/standing-notices
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- United Kingdom
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- Australia
- Sweden
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In the United Kingdom, D-Notices, officially known since 2015 as DSMA-Notices (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notices), are official requests to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security.
DSMA-Notices were originally called Defence Notices (abbreviated to D-Notice) from their inception in 1912 to 1993, and DA-Notices (Defence Advisory Notices) from 1993 until the mid-2010s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DSMA-Notice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.