Safeguarding National Security Law | |
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![]() Emblem of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China | |
Legislative Assembly of Macau | |
Citation | Law 2 of 2009 |
Passed by | Legislative Assembly of Macau |
Passed | 25 February 2009 |
Signed by | Edmund Ho Hau-wah |
Signed | 26 February 2009 |
Commenced | 2 March 2009 |
Effective | 3 March 2009 |
Legislative history | |
Introduced | 19 February 2008 |
Committee report | Second Permanent Committee report |
Amends | |
Criminal Procedure Code | |
Status: Amended |
Macau national security law | |||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 維護國家安全法 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 维护国家安全法 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | Safeguarding National Security Law | ||||||||||
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Portuguese name | |||||||||||
Portuguese | Lei relativa à defesa da segurança do Estado |
The Macau national security law (Chinese: 維護國家安全法, lit. 'Safeguarding National Security Law'; Portuguese: Lei relativa à defesa da segurança do Estado, lit. 'Law related to the defense of the security of the State') is a law in Macau which prohibits and punishes acts of "treason, secession, and subversion" against the Central government, as well as "preparatory acts" leading to any of the three acts. Taken into effect on 3 March 2009, the purpose of the law is to fulfil Article 23 of the Macau Basic Law, the de facto constitution of the Macau Special Administration Region.[1][2][3] Macau National Security Law has been in force for eleven years. Pro-Beijing[4] state-owned Hong Kong Newspaper Wen Wei Po claimed that Macau's National Security Law "has not been used".[5][better source needed]