Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
Part 5
Ord. No. 6 of 2024
Section 50
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- (A) infrastructure; or
- (B) facility; or
- (ii) computer or electronic system providing or managing the services mentioned in subparagraph (i).
50. Doing acts endangering national security in relation to computers or electronic systems
(1) A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 20 years if—
- (a) the person, with intent to endanger national security and without lawful authority, does an act in relation to a computer or electronic system;
- (b) the person knows that the person has no lawful authority to do the act at the time of doing the act; and
- (c) the act endangers (or is likely to endanger) national security.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), a person who does an act in relation to a computer or electronic system (the person) does the act without lawful authority if—
- (a) the person is not a person who is responsible for the computer or electronic system and is entitled to decide whether the act could be done (responsible person); and
- (b) the person does the act without the consent of a responsible person.
(3) In this section—
computer or electronic system (電腦或電子系統) includes any thing or software that constitutes the computer or electronic system.
