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Safeguarding National Security Ordinance Part 5 Section 49 Part 5 Sabotage Endangering National Security etc. '''49. Sabotage endangering national security'''

(1) A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 20 years if the person—
 * (a) with intent to endanger national security; or
 * (b) being reckless as to whether national security would be endangered,

damages or weakens a public infrastructure.

(2) A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to life imprisonment if the person—
 * (a) with intent to endanger national security; or
 * (b) being reckless as to whether national security would be endangered,

colludes with an external force to damage or weaken a public infrastructure.

(3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), an act is weakening a public infrastructure if the act causes any of the following effects (whenever caused) on the infrastructure (including any thing or software that constitutes the infrastructure)—
 * (a) making the infrastructure vulnerable to abuse or damage;
 * (b) making the infrastructure vulnerable to be accessed or altered by persons who are not entitled to access or alter the infrastructure;