Hong Kong Ordinances

HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ORDINANCE - SECT 8

Code of practice

(1) The Council shall prepare and maintain a code of practice giving guidance
about the proper conduct of any relevant activity authorized by any licence
and the proper discharge of the functions of the person responsible and other
persons to whom the licence applies.

(2) The code may also give guidance about the use of any technique involving
the placing of sperm and eggs in a woman.

(3) The Council may from time to time revise the whole or any part of the
code.

(4) The Council shall publish the code as for the time being in force.

(5) The Council shall, in preparing or revising the code, consult with-

   (a)  persons to whom the code will or may apply; and

   (b)  such other interested persons, as it thinks fit.

(6) The code, including the code as revised under subsection (3), shall not
come into force until the Council publishes a notice in the Gazette-

   (a)  stating that it has, pursuant to this section, published the code or
        revised code, as the case may be; and

   (b)  specifying the place or places at which the code or revised code, as
        the case may be, is available to be obtained.

(7) The Council, in preparing or revising the code to the extent to which it
relates, or may relate, to any child to be born in consequence of a
reproductive technology procedure, shall treat as of paramount importance, and
accept as a fundamental principle, the welfare of the child.