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Safeguarding National Security Ordinance

Part 7—Division 2
Ord. No. 6 of 2024
Section 95
A693

(6) This section does not affect any power that a person may exercise under any Ordinance in relation to a relevant absconder, or in relation to the business carried on by the relevant absconder or the work for which the relevant absconder is employed.

95. Temporary removal from office of director

(1) If it is specified under section 89(4) (including by virtue of section 89(5)) that this section applies in relation to a person, the person is a relevant absconder for the purposes of this section during the period within which the specification is in force.

(2) If, at any time during the period within which the specification is in force (material time), a relevant absconder holds the office of director of any company, the relevant absconder is, for all purposes, to be regarded as being removed temporarily from that office of director at the material time, and accordingly, the relevant absconder must not directly or indirectly take part or be concerned in the management of the company temporarily.

(3) If, under any Ordinance, a person is required to keep a register (however described) in relation to that office of director, the person must from time to time update the register in view of the operation of subsection (2).

(4) This section does not affect—

(a) any power that a person may exercise under the law of the HKSAR in relation to a relevant absconder; or
(b) any power that a person may exercise under the constitution, rules or other governing documents by which the company is constituted (or according to