HONG KONG, Nov. 15 -- Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday ruled that two legislators-elect, who used insulting language against the Chinese nation while taking their oaths last month, must be disqualified as lawmakers.

The ruling came after the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government and Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying filed a judicial review on Oct. 18 against the decision by the president of the Legislative Council (LegCo) to give the pair a second chance to be sworn in.

Justice Thomas Au ruled in favor of the SAR government, finding that the oaths purportedly taken by the two are invalid and void and have no legal effect.

The duo manifested a clear conduct to refuse, thus "decline," to take the LegCo Oath, whether in form or in substance, as required under the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance (ODO), according to the verdict.

The two legislators-elect have been disqualified from assuming office and have vacated their seats as members of the LegCo since Oct. 12, and are not entitled to act as members of the LegCo, the verdict said, adding the office of member of the LegCo previously occupied by each of the two is now vacant.

The court also ruled that the president of LegCo has no power to re-administer or allow for re-administration of any future oath-taking by the two.

In addition, it barred the duo from claiming to be entitled and/or acting as members of the LegCo.

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