Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
Part 9—Division 23
Ord. No. 6 of 2024
Section 169
A805
- Repeal
- “British national or Hong Kong permanent resident”
- Substitute
- “person mentioned in subsection (5A)”.
(5) After section 18(5)—
- Add
- “(5A) The person is—
- (a) a HKSAR resident;
- (b) a body corporate that is incorporated, formed or registered in Hong Kong; or
- (c) a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, that has a place of business in Hong Kong.”.
(6) Section 18—
- Repeal subsection (6)
- Substitute
- “(6) For the purposes of this section, information or a document or article is protected against disclosure by any of sections 13, 14 and 17 if—
- (a) it relates to security or intelligence; or
- (b) it is information or a document or article to which section 17 applies,
- and information or a document or article is protected against disclosure by any of sections 13 and 14 if it falls within paragraph (a).”.
(7) Section 18(7)—
- Repeal
- “to 17”