Hong Kong Ordinances

HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ORDINANCE - SECT 17

Prohibition against surrogacy arrangements on commercial basis, etc.

(1) No person shall-

   (a)  whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere, make or receive any payment for-

        (i)    initiating or taking part in any negotiations with a view to
               the making of a surrogacy arrangement;

        (ii)   offering or agreeing to negotiate the making of a surrogacy 
               arrangement; or

        (iii)  compiling any information with a view to its use in making, or
               negotiating the making of, surrogacy arrangements;

   (b)  seek to find a person willing to do any act which contravenes
        paragraph (a);

   (c)  take part in the management or control of a body of persons corporate
        or unincorporate whose activities consist of or include any act which
        contravenes paragraph (a); or

   (d)  carry out or participate in any act in furtherance of any
        surrogacy arrangement where he knows, or ought reasonably to know,
        that the arrangement is the subject of any act which contravenes
        paragraph (a).

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1)(b), no person shall
cause to be published or distributed, or knowingly publish or distribute, an
advertisement relating to surrogacy arrangements, and whether or not the
advertisement invites persons to do any act which contravenes subsection
(1)(a).