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Safeguarding National Security Ordinance Part 3—Division 1 Section 15 Part 3 Insurrection, Incitement to Mutiny and Disaffection, and Acts with Seditious Intention, etc. Division 1—Insurrection 15. Insurrection

If—
 * (a) a person joins an armed force, or is a part of an armed force, that is in an armed conflict with a Chinese armed force;
 * (b) a person, with intent to prejudice the situation of a Chinese armed force in an armed conflict, assists an armed force (that armed force) that is in an armed conflict with a Chinese armed force, or assists the government, authority or organization to which that armed force belongs;
 * (c) a person initiates armed conflict against a Chinese armed force; or
 * (d) a person—
 * (i) with intent to endanger the sovereignty, unity or territorial integrity of China or the public safety of the HKSAR as a whole; or
 * (ii) being reckless as to whether the sovereignty, unity or territorial integrity of China, or the public safety of the HKSAR as a whole, would be endangered,
 * does a violent act in the HKSAR,

the person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to life imprisonment.