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Implementation Rules for Article 43 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Schedule 7 Section 4 :(a) any prosecution of an offence endangering national security;
 * (b) an application for a confiscation order under section 9 of Schedule 3 or an application for a forfeiture order under section 13 of Schedule 3; or
 * (c) an application for a restraint order or charging order under section 6 of Schedule 3,

but may not otherwise be disclosed.

(2) Subject to subsection (1), information obtained by any person under or by virtue of section 2 or 3 of this Schedule may be disclosed by any authorized officer—
 * (a) to the Department of Justice and the Hong Kong Police Force; and
 * (b) where the information appears to the Secretary for Justice to be likely to assist any corresponding person or body to discharge its functions—to that person or body.

(3) Subsection (2) is without prejudice to any other right to disclose information obtained under or by virtue of section 2 or 3 of this Schedule that may exist apart from subsection (2).

(4) In this section—

corresponding person or body (相應的人員或機構) means any person who or body which, in the opinion of the Secretary for Justice, has under the law of a place outside Hong Kong functions corresponding to any of the functions of any body mentioned in subsection (2)(a).