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Public Offices (Candidacy and Taking Up Offices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2021

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(ii) commits an offence under the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (a translation of “《中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法》”); and

(iii) commits an offence relating to endangering national security under an enactment or under the common law;

(b) refuses to recognize the People’s Republic of China’s sovereignty over the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the exercise of the sovereignty, including objecting to the performance of duties and functions by the body of central power in accordance with—

(i) the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China;

(ii) the Basic Law; or

(iii) the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (a translation of “《中華人民共和國香港特別行政區維護國家安全法》”); and

(c) refuses to recognize the constitutional status of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as a local administrative region of the People’s Republic of China;

(d) advocates or supports “Hong Kong independence”, including—

(i) pursues, promotes or implements “independence and state-building” of Hong Kong;