Hong Kong Ordinances

PARENT AND CHILD ORDINANCE - SECT 9

Meaning of "mother" where birth or pregnancy results from medical treatment

PART V

DETERMINATION OF PARENT WHERE BIRTH OR PREGNANCY RESULTS FROM MEDICAL
TREATMENT

(1) The woman who is carrying or has carried a child as a result of the
placing in her of an embryo or of sperm and eggs, and no other woman, is to be
regarded as the mother of the child.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any child to the extent that the child is
regarded by virtue of adoption as not being the child of any person other than
the adopter or adopters.

(3) Subsection (1) applies whether the woman was in Hong Kong or elsewhere at
the time of the placing in her of the embryo or the sperm and eggs. (Enacted
1993) [ cf. 1990 c. 37 s. 27 U.K.]

(1) The woman who is carrying or has carried a child as a result of
the placing in her of an embryo or of sperm and eggs, and no other woman, is
to be regarded as the mother of the child.