Article 11 Where State security requires, a State security organ may inspect the electronic communication instruments and appliances and other similar equipment and installations belonging to any organization or individual.
Article 12 Where State security requires, a State security organ may, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State, request such inspecting organs as the Customs and the frontier inspection stations to exempt the personnel, materials and equipment concerned from inspection. The relevant inspecting organs shall give assistance thereto.
Article 13 State security organs and their functionaries, in their work of State security, shall act strictly according to law, and refrain from overstepping or abusing their powers and infringing upon the lawful rights and interests of any organization or individual.
Article 14 the performance of duty according to law by functionaries of the State security organs shall be protected by law.
Chapter III Duties and Rights of Citizens and Organizations in Safeguarding State Security
Article 15 State organs, organizations and other institutions shall educate their personnel with regard to the maintenance of State security, mobilize and organize them to prevent and check acts endangering State security.
Article 16 Citizens and organizations shall provide convenience or other assistance for the work of State security.
Article 17 any citizen who finds any act endangering State security shall without delay report it directly or through his work unit to a State security organ or a public security organ.
Article 18 When a State security organs investigates and finds out any circumstances endangering State security and gathers related evidence, citizens and organizations concerned shall faithfully furnish it with relevant information and may not refuse to do so.
Article 19 any citizen or organization shall keep confidential the State secrets that have come to his knowledge or its possession regarding State security.
Article 20 No individual or organization may unlawfully hold any document, material or other articles classified as State secrets.
Article 21 No individual or organization may unlawfully hold or use any specialized espionage equipment or devices such as those for eavesdropping or secret photographing.
Article 22 any citizen or organization shall have the right to make to the State security organ at a higher level or to a relevant department exposure of or charge against the excess or abuse of power or other unlawful acts committed by a State security organ or its functionaries. The State security organ at the higher level or the relevant department shall ascertain the facts without delay and be responsible for the handling thereof.
No one may suppress or retaliate against any citizen or organization that has assisted a State security organ in its work or made reports or charges according to law.
Chapter IV Legal Liability
Article 23 Where the acts endangering State security committed by institutions, organizations or individuals outside the territory of the People's Republic of China or committed by other persons under the instigation or financial support of the said institutions, organizations or individuals, or committed by institutions or individuals within the territory of the People's Republic of China in collusion with institutions, organizations or individuals outside the territory constitute crimes, such institutions, organizations or individuals shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.
Article 24 Anyone who, guilty of a crime of espionage, voluntarily surrenders himself or has performed meritorious service may be given a lighter or a mitigated punishment or be exempted from punishment; and any such person who has performed significant meritorious service may be awarded.