The Magic Circle (organisation) 75% of members voted to admit women. As of 2010 there were around eighty female members of the Magic Circle, including Paul Daniels' wife, Debbie McGee. In 2014, Megan Knowles-Bacon became the first female officer in the Magic Circle, as well as the youngest person to be elected as an officer; she was elected as secretary. The motto of the society is the Latin "indocilis privata loqui", roughly translated as "not apt to disclose secrets" (lit. "incapable [of] speaking [of] private [things]") ; members give their word not to wilfully disclose magic secrets other than to bona fide students of
Official Secrets Act 1989 section 24(2)(b) of that Act. It was repealed on 1 October 2002. The repeal was consequential on the replacement of section 24(2) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 with a new Schedule 1A to that Act. Section 11(3) extends section 9(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1911 (which relates to search warrants). Section 12(1) defines the expression "Crown servant" for the purposes of this Act. Sections 12(2) and (3) define the expression "government contractor" for the purposes of this Act. This section defines the words and expressions "disclose", "disclosure", "international organisation", "prescribed" and "State" for the purposes of