[citation needed] They were gradually relaxed, up to the 1992 when they were brought in line with international human rights standards by the outgoing government and the second last Legislative Council (1992–1995).

[3] Upon Hong Kong handover, the human rights amendments in the 1990s were reverted by the NPCSC of China.

Moreover, it gave the Governor-in-Council the power to ban any society deemed to be injurious to law and order in Hong Kong.

The words "foreign political organisations" were also mentioned for the first time in the bill in the light of the influx of migrants from the Chinese Civil War between the Nationalists and the Communists.

[7] After the handover of Hong Kong, the 1992 amendments were rolled back by the Beijing-controlled Provisional Legislative Council (PLC) in 1997, which reinstated the provisions of the power of the government to refuse to register a political body "that has a connection with a foreign political organisation" and the requirement to register with the police.