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Article 23 is an article of the Hong Kong Basic Law.It states that Hong Kong "shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government, or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organizations or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and to prohibit political organizations or bodies of ...
Committee report: Report of the Bills Committee on Safeguarding National Security Bill: Summary; To comprehensively address the national security risks at present and those that may emerge in the future in Hong Kong and to fully implement the constitutional duties and obligations as stipulated under Article 23 of the Basic Law, the 5.28 Decision and the 2020 Hong Kong National Security Law
The package, known as Article 23, is designed to update or create new laws to prohibit treason, sabotage, sedition, the theft of state secrets and espionage. Some lawyers analysing the draft said ...
The basic principles for interpreting the Basic Law are described in Article 158 and case law. According to Article 158(1), the NPCSC has the power of final interpretation. This is consistent with the NPCSC's general power to interpret Chinese national laws as provided by Article 67(4) of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China .
The law, known as Article 23, will target crimes including treason, theft of state secrets, espionage, sabotage, sedition and "external interference", including from foreign governments.
[7] [8] The law established an office outside of Hong Kong jurisdiction to administer enforcement of the law. [9] Article 23 of the Hong Kong Basic Law, which came into force with the British handover of Hong Kong in 1997, required that a national security law with some of these provisions be enacted by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
While Article 23 of Basic Law was completed in March 2024, as of October 2024, Article 45 of Basic Law has not been fulfilled, the Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee when asked about universal suffrage being in his term's agenda, during his 2024 Policy Address in October replied "Political reform has been settled, at this moment, with the ...
National Security (Legislative Provisions) Bill (Chinese: 國家安全（立法條文）條例草案) was a proposed bill which aimed to amend the Crimes Ordinance, the Official Secrets Ordinance, and the Societies Ordinance, pursuant to the obligation imposed by Article 23 of the Basic Law, and to provide for related, incidental and consequential amendments. [2]