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19. Regulations

(1) The Secretary may make regulations for the purposes of enabling persons to be prohibited from dealing with any property (other than funds)—

(a) that the Secretary has reasonable grounds to suspect is terrorist property; and

(b) except under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary for the purposes of the regulations.

(2) The Secretary may make regulations for the purposes of—

(a) facilitating the obtaining of evidence and information for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of this Ordinance;

(b) facilitating the obtaining of evidence in relation to the commission of an offence under this Ordinance; and

(c) enabling property suspected of being terrorist property to be seized and detained while its origin or derivation is further investigated or consideration is given to the institution (whether in the HKSAR or elsewhere) of proceedings—

(i) against any person in relation to an offence with which the property is connected; or

(ii) which may result in the property being specified in a notice under section 6(1) or which may result in the forfeiture or other confiscation of the property.

(3) The Secretary may make regulations for the purposes of authorizing public officers to perform functions or exercise powers under regulations made under this section.

(4) The Secretary may make regulations for the purposes of providing compensation to be paid, on grounds specified in the regulations, to a person who has suffered loss in consequence of any act done or omission made under regulations made under this section in respect of any property.

(5) Regulations made under this section may provide for applications to be made to, and orders to be made by, a magistrate or court for any purposes mentioned in subsection (1), (2) or (4).

(6) Regulations made under this section may—

(a) prescribe offences in respect of contraventions of the regulations (including contravention of any orders made under the regulations); and

(b) provide for the imposition in respect of any such offence of—

(i) on conviction on indictment, a fine and imprisonment for not more than 7 years;

(ii) on summary conviction, a fine at not more than level 6 and imprisonment for not more than 1 year.