Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
Part 3—Division 1
Ord. No. 6 of 2024
Section 15
A493
Part 3
Insurrection, Incitement to Mutiny and Disaffection, and Acts with Seditious Intention, etc.
Division 1—Insurrection
15. Insurrection
If—
- (a) a person joins an armed force, or is a part of an armed force, that is in an armed conflict with a Chinese armed force;
- (b) a person, with intent to prejudice the situation of a Chinese armed force in an armed conflict, assists an armed force (that armed force) that is in an armed conflict with a Chinese armed force, or assists the government, authority or organization to which that armed force belongs;
- (c) a person initiates armed conflict against a Chinese armed force; or
- (d) a person—
- (i) with intent to endanger the sovereignty, unity or territorial integrity of China or the public safety of the HKSAR as a whole; or
- (ii) being reckless as to whether the sovereignty, unity or territorial integrity of China, or the public safety of the HKSAR as a whole, would be endangered,
- does a violent act in the HKSAR,
the person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to life imprisonment.
