Human Rights Monitor prefers working to make itself effective rather than finding ways to ensure its survival, director Law Yuk-kai said.
There have been concerns that human rights groups may be banned after the handover because China could regard them as political organisations with overseas links.
Mr Law said Article 23 of the Basic Law was ambiguous and could be used by a government to persecute people it did not like.
Instead of studying how the group could survive under the Basic Law, it would look at how it could improve human rights in Hong Kong by seeking the repeal of articles considered a threat in the Basic Law, he said.
'If it is not a genteel government, it will still ban you no matter what you do to try to ensure your existence.' Mr Law believed members of Human Rights Monitor would continue their work even if the organisation was banned.
'As long as we are committed and we are still here, we can still get together again and do our work even if there is not much room for human rights groups to exist after 1997,' he said.
