Hong Kong Ordinances

HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ORDINANCE - SECT 44

Regulations-fees

(1) The Financial Secretary may make regulations to prescribe the fees to be
paid to the Council in respect of-

   (a)  any application under this Ordinance to the Council;

   (b)  the provision of any service or facility connected with licences or
        any other matter to which this Ordinance relates.

(2) The amount of any fee prescribed in regulations made under subsection (1)
shall not be limited by reference to the amount of administrative or other
costs incurred or likely to be incurred in relation to the application,
service or facility, or other matter, to which such fee relates, and different
fees may be so prescribed for the same type of application, service or
facility, or other matter, in order to provide for particular circumstances or
particular cases specified in the regulations.

(3) The Council may refuse to act in connection with anything in respect of
which a prescribed fee or part of a prescribed fee has not been paid.

(4) The Council shall cause all prescribed fees paid to it to be paid into the
general revenue.

(5) Unpaid prescribed fees shall constitute a debt due to the Government and
shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt within the meaning of the
Magistrates Ordinance ( Cap 227).

(6) No prescribed fee shall be reduced, waived or refunded except in such
circumstances, if any, as are specified in regulations made under subsection
(1).