Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
Part 1
Ord. No. 6 of 2024
Section 7
A475
- (b) the government, authority, political party, organization or entity is in a position to exercise, by virtue of other factors, substantial control over the individual.
7. Meaning of offence endangering national security
To avoid doubt, in this Ordinance or any other Ordinance, a reference to an offence endangering national security includes—
- (a) the four types of offences under the HK National Security Law (which are the offence of secession, the offence of subversion, the offence of terrorist activities and the offence of collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security (a translation of “分裂國家罪、顛覆國家政權罪、恐怖活動罪及勾結外國或者境外勢力危害國家安全罪”));
- (b) the offences under the 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 (a translation of “《中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法第四十三條實施細則》”);
- (c) the offences under this Ordinance; and
- (d) other offences endangering national security under the law of the HKSAR.
8. Interpretation of other Ordinances etc.
(1) If this Ordinance and another Ordinance would be inconsistent but for this subsection, that other Ordinance is to be read in a way that have the best regard to the object and purposes of this Ordinance.
