Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
(3) A hearing of an application under subsection (1) must take place in a closed court.
(4) If an order is made under subsection (1), a person affected by the order may apply to the specified Court to vary or revoke the order.
(5) The specified Court must not vary or revoke the order unless the specified Court, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, is satisfied that injustice would be caused if the order is not varied or revoked.
(6) To avoid doubt, unless the specified Court orders otherwise, the Secretary for Justice need not, for the purposes of an application under subsection (4), provide to the applicant documents submitted to the specified Court at the time when the Secretary for Justice made the application under subsection (1).
(7) To avoid doubt—
- (a) this section does not limit any other power that any Court may exercise; and
- (b) section 117 does not prevent a specified Court from ordering under subsection (1) any measures to be taken in relation to a document mentioned in section 117(2).
(8) In this section—
specified Court (指明法院) means any of the following courts of the Judiciary of the HKSAR—
- (a) the Court of Final Appeal;
- (b) the Court of Appeal;
- (c) the Court of First Instance;
- (d) the District Court;
- (e) a Magistrates’ Court;
