Hong Kong Regulations

UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS (DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA) REGULATION - SECT 26

Disclosure of information or documents

PART 7

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION OR DOCUMENTS

(1) Any information or document provided, produced or seized in pursuance of
this Regulation may be disclosed only if—

   (a)  the person who provided or produced the information or document or the
        person from whom the document was seized has given consent to the
        disclosure;

   (b)  the information or document is disclosed to a person who would have
        been empowered under this Regulation to request that it be provided or
        produced;

   (c)  the information or document is disclosed on the authority of the Chief
        Executive, subject to the information or document being transmitted
        through and with the approval of the instructing authority, to any
        organ of the United Nations or to any person in the service of the
        United Nations or to the Government of any place outside the People's
        Republic of China for the purpose of assisting the United Nations or
        that Government in securing compliance with or detecting evasion of
        measures in relation to the DPRK decided on by the Security Council;
        or

   (d)  the information or document is disclosed with a view to the
        institution of, or otherwise for the purposes of, any proceedings for
        an offence under this Regulation.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a)—

   (a)  a person may not give consent to the disclosure if he has obtained the
        information or possessed the document only in his capacity as servant
        or agent of another person; and

   (b)  a person may give consent to the disclosure if he is entitled to the
        information or to the possession of the document in his own right.