[4] Also on 3 July 2020, Luo Huining, the director of the Liaison Office was appointed by the State Council to the role of the committee's National Security Adviser.

[10] In January 2023, the committee said that the law in Hong Kong should be changed to ban overseas lawyers from national security cases.

This came after Jimmy Lai had attempted to hire Tim Owen as his lawyer, and a subsequent approval in December 2022 by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of an interpretation – not in relation to a Lai's case – that the chief executive and the committee had the final say in whether overseas lawyers could be admitted in national security cases.

The National Security Adviser is appointed by the Central People's Government to "provide advice on matters relating to the duties and functions of the Committee".

Article 18 specifies that prosecutors of the division "for the prosecution of offences endangering national security and other related legal work" – established by the same law – have to be approved by the committee prior to their appointment by the Secretary of Justice.