Public Offices (Candidacy and Taking Up Offices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2021
Part 2
Ord. No. 13 of 2021
Section 3
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Part 2
Amendment to Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1)
3. Section 3AA added
After section 3—
- Add
- “3AA. References to upholding Basic Law and bearing allegiance to HKSAR
- (1) For the purposes of an Ordinance, a person upholds the Basic Law and bears allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China if the person—
- (a) upholds the constitutional order of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region established by the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China and the Basic Law;
- (b) upholds the national sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and national security of the People’s Republic of China;
- (c) upholds—
- (i) the fact that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is an inalienable part of the People’s Republic of China;
- (ii) the People’s Republic of China’s exercise of sovereignty over the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; and
