Page:Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.pdf/63

Safeguarding National Security Ordinance Part 4—Division 1 Section 35 (2) For a person leaving the HKSAR on a departure conveyance, a reference in subsection (1) to the person possessing any information, document or other article includes any of the following circumstances—
 * (a) the information, document or article being part of the personal belongings of the person carried on the conveyance;
 * (b) the information, document or article being in the checked baggage of the person (whether or not carried, or to be carried, on the same conveyance).

(3) In this section—

departure conveyance (離境運輸工具) means a vehicle, vessel, aircraft, hovercraft or other means of transport engaged on a journey leaving the HKSAR;

information (資料)—
 * (a) includes information stored by electronic means; but
 * (b) does not include message or intelligence that is not stored on any medium.

35. Unlawful disclosure of state secrets

(1) If a specified person, without lawful authority, discloses any information, document or other article that is or contains a specified state secret and that is (or was) acquired or possessed by the person by virtue of the person’s specified capacity, the person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 10 years.