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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 L.N. 130 of 2020 B2401

Preamble

WHEREAS—

(1) at its Twentieth Meeting on 30 June 2020, the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress, after consulting the Committee for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, decided to add the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (a translation of “《中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法》”) to the list of national laws in Annex III to the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China;

(2) on 30 June 2020, the Chief Executive gave notice that the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region applies from 11 p.m. on 30 June 2020 in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region;

(3) the first paragraph of Article 43 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National