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Safeguarding National Security Ordinance

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Part 5
Sabotage Endangering National Security etc.

49. Sabotage endangering national security

(1) A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 20 years if the person—

(a) with intent to endanger national security; or

(b) being reckless as to whether national security would be endangered,

damages or weakens a public infrastructure.

(2) A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to life imprisonment if the person—

(a) with intent to endanger national security; or

(b) being reckless as to whether national security would be endangered,

colludes with an external force to damage or weaken a public infrastructure.

(3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), an act is weakening a public infrastructure if the act causes any of the following effects (whenever caused) on the infrastructure (including any thing or software that constitutes the infrastructure)—

(a) making the infrastructure vulnerable to abuse or damage;

(b) making the infrastructure vulnerable to be accessed or altered by persons who are not entitled to access or alter the infrastructure;