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Implementation Rules for Article 43 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Schedule 7
L.N. 139 of 2020
Section 2
B2603

(b) identify the particular person, or state the particular description of persons, in respect of whom the order is made;
(c) authorize the Secretary for Justice to require the person or persons in respect of whom the order is made to do either or both of the following—
(i) to answer questions or furnish information with respect to any matter that reasonably appears to an authorized officer to be relevant to the investigation;
(ii) to produce any material that reasonably appears to the Secretary for Justice to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation, or any material of a class that reasonably appears to the Secretary for Justice so to relate; and
(d) contain such other terms (if any) as the Court of First Instance considers appropriate in the public interest, but nothing in this paragraph is to be construed as authorizing the court to order the detention of any person in custody without that person’s consent.

(4) The conditions referred to in subsection (2) are—

(a) that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the offence endangering national security under investigation has been committed;
(b) where the application relates to a particular person—that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the person has information, or is in possession of material, likely to be relevant to the investigation;
(c) where the application relates to persons of a particular description, that—