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 6—Part 4—Division 1
L.N. 139 of 2020
Section 23
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- (A) for the purpose specified in section 2(1)(a)(i) of this Schedule, the relevant offences endangering national security to be prevented or detected and an assessment of their immediacy and gravity; or
- (B) for the purpose specified in section 2(1)(a)(ii) of this Schedule, the relevant threat to national security and an assessment of its immediacy and gravity;
- (vii) the benefits likely to be obtained by conducting the interception;
- (viii) an assessment of the impact (if any) of the interception on any person other than the subject;
- (ix) whether it is likely that any information which may be subject to legal professional privilege, or may be the contents of any journalistic material, will be obtained by conducting the interception;
- (x) the reason why the purpose sought to be furthered by conducting the interception cannot reasonably be furthered by other less intrusive means; and
- (xi) if known, whether, during the preceding 2 years, there has been any application for the issue or renewal of a prescribed authorization under this Schedule in respect of the subject mentioned in subparagraph (ii) or (if the particulars of any telecommunications service have been set out in the statement under subparagraph (iii)) the telecommunications service, and if so, particulars of such application; and
