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leads to loss of life or injury to members of those
forces or serious damage to the equipment or
installations of those forces; or
otherwise than as mentioned in paragraph (a) above,
cuangers the interests of Hong Kong or of the
United Kingdom abroad, seriously obstructs the
promotion or protection by Hong Kong or the United
Kingdom of those interests or endangers the safety of
british nationals or Hong Kong permanent residents
(3)
(c)
or
it is of information or of a document or article
which is such that its unauthorised disclosure would
be likely to have any of those effects.
It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under
this section to prove that at the time of the alleged offence he did
not know, and had no reasonable cause to believe, that the
ALAVA document or article in question related to defence or
that its disclosure would be damaging within the meaning of
subsection (1) above.
(4)
In this section "defence" means
(a)
the size, shape, organisation, logistics, order of
(b)
(c)
battle, deployment, operations, state of readiness
and training of the armed forces of the Crown;
the weapons, stores or other equipment of those
forces and the invention, development, production and
operation of such equipment and research relating to
1t;
defence policy and strategy and military planning and
intelligence;