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UNITED NATIONS (ANTI-TERRORISM
MEASURES) ORDINANCE

Ord. No. 27 of 2002
A1977


(ii) established pursuant to a United Nations Security Council Resolution made, or a United Nations Convention which has entered into force, after 15 October 1999; and
(iii) the function of which, in whole or in part, is to designate persons or property as terrorists, terrorist associates or terrorist property, as the case may be;

“entity” (實體) means any body of persons (including individuals), whether corporate or unincorporate;

“functions” (職能) includes powers;

“funds” (資金) includes funds mentioned in the Schedule;

“items subject to legal privilege” (享有法律特權的品目) has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance (Cap. 455);

“practicable” (切實可行) means reasonably practicable;

“prescribed interest” (訂明權益), in relation to any property, means an interest in the property prescribed by rules of court as an interest for the purposes of this Ordinance;

“Secretary” (局長) means the Secretary for Security;

“terrorist” (恐怖分子) means a person who commits, or attempts to commit, a terrorist act or who participates in or facilitates the commission of a terrorist act;

“terrorist act” (恐怖主義行為)—

(a) subject to paragraph (b), means the use or threat of action where—
(i) the action (including, in the case of a threat, the action if carried out)—
(A) causes serious violence against a person;
(B) causes serious damage to property;
(C) endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action;
(D) creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public;
(E) is intended seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system; or
(F) is intended seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an essential service, facility or system, whether public or private; and
(ii) the use or threat is—
(A) intended to compel the Government or to intimidate the public or a section of the public; and
(B) made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause;