Originally Posted by Lou Scannon
John Eacot:
RAF officers are not a secret organisation and all are published in the Air Force List.
Freemasonry membership lists in England have always been a secret.
Do, I wonder, those service personnel receiving PV clearance admit to membership of the Masons?
Under the Seditious Organisations Act of 17?? all Masonic Lodges had to send a copy of their membership lists to the Lord Chancellor every year and they were subject to public inspection at the Public Records Office. The requirement of the Act was not repealed until the 1960's, so I am afraid that it is only the last 40 years that Lodges have not published their memebership records.
As for mention of ones membership when being vetted it is covered under the Human Rights Act, that one has a RIGHT to privacy in ones private avocations.