Hong Kong Regulations

UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS (AFGHANISTAN) REGULATION - SECT 3K

Disclosure of information or documents

(1) Any information furnished or any document produced or seized in pursuance
of section 3H, 3I or 3J may be disclosed only if-

   (a)  the person who furnished the information or produced the 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 furnished
        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 purposes of assisting the United Nations or
        that Government in securing compliance with or detecting evasion of
        measures in relation to a relevant person or a relevant undertaking
        decided on by the Security Council of the United Nations; 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.
        (L.N. 134 of 2002)