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Public Offices (Candidacy and Taking Up Offices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2021 Part 6 Section 24 ::(a) the date on which the person vacates an office, or is disqualified from entering on an office, under the law, for declining or neglecting to take a specified oath; or
 * (b) the date on which the person is declared or decided in accordance with any law—
 * (i) to be in breach of a specified oath; or
 * (ii) to have failed to fulfil the legal requirements and conditions on upholding the Basic Law and bearing allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.”.

(2) After section 21(3)—
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 * “(4) In this section—
 * specified oath (指明誓言) means an oath taken under the law that the oath-taker will uphold the Basic Law and bear allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.”.

24. Section 24 amended (disqualification of elected members)

After section 24(2)—
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 * “(2A) An elected member is also disqualified from holding office if the person, after being elected—
 * (a) is in breach of an oath taken under section 19A of the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance (Cap. 11); or