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Safeguarding National Security Ordinance Part 4—Division 1 Section 40 (8) For the purposes of subsection (7), any information, document or article disclosed by the person is official information, document or article if—
 * (a) the person possesses (or possessed) the information, document or article by virtue of the person’s capacity as a specified person; or
 * (b) the person knows (or has reasonable grounds to believe) that a specified person possesses (or possessed) the information, document or article by virtue of the specified person’s capacity as a specified person.

(9) A person who commits an offence under subsection (7) is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine of $500,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.

(10) In this section—

official direction (正式指示) means a direction duly given by a specified person;

specified person (指明人士) means a public officer or government contractor.

40. Extra-territorial effect of this Division

(1) If—
 * (a) any—
 * (i) HKSAR resident;
 * (ii) body corporate that is incorporated, formed or registered in the HKSAR; or
 * (iii) body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, that has a place of business in the HKSAR,
 * does any act outside the HKSAR; and