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Safeguarding National Security Ordinance

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(iv) a family member of an aider; and

(b) the person commits the offence—

(i) with intent to prevent or deter the specified person’s performance of his or her functions as a specified person or the aider’s provision of assistance in relation to a case concerning national security; or

(ii) in consequence of a thing done (or attempted to be done) by the specified person in the lawful performance of his or her functions as a specified person or by the aider in providing assistance in relation to a case concerning national security,

the person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 10 years.

(3) If—

(a) any—

(i) HKSAR resident;

(ii) body corporate that is incorporated, formed or registered in the HKSAR; or

(iii) body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, that has a place of business in the HKSAR,

does any act outside the HKSAR; and

(b) the act would have constituted an offence under subsection (1) or (2) had it been done in the HKSAR,

the resident or body commits the offence.