The Official Secrets Act 1989 (Hong Kong) Order 1992
UK Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 1301 — creates 12 criminal offences.
- Made
- 4 June 1992
- In force from
- 30 June 1992
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Terrorism, official secrets and national security
- Made under
- Her by section 15(3) of the Official Secrets Act 1989, No. 1301 OFFICIAL SECRETS The Official Secrets Act 1989
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order extends the Official Secrets Act 1989 to Hong Kong with the exceptions, adaptations and modifications specified in Schedule 1 to this Order to form part of the law of Hong Kong. The exceptions, adaptations and modifications are required in order to reflect that Hong Kong is a dependent territory which has laws of its own, its own administration and permanent residents. The text of the Act, as extended to Hong Kong, is set out in full in Schedule 2 to the Order.
Offences created by this instrument
- Security and intelligence paragraph 1(1) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Security and intelligence paragraph 1(3) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Defence paragraph 2(1) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Strict liability
- International relations paragraph 3(1) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Crime and special investigation powers paragraph 4(1) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Information resulting from unauthorised disclosures or entrusted in confidence paragraph 5(2) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Objective fault
- Information resulting from unauthorised disclosures or entrusted in confidence paragraph 5(6) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Objective fault
- Subject to subsection (3) below, the person into whose possession the information, document or article has come is… paragraph 6(2) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Objective fault
- Safeguarding of information paragraph 8(1) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Safeguarding of information paragraph 8(4) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Safeguarding of information paragraph 8(5) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Safeguarding of information paragraph 8(6) of SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
What Parliament said about it
Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.
How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1992