HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY
ORDINANCE
PART III
Prohibitions
13. Prohibition against carrying on relevant activity except pursuant to licence
No person shall carry on a relevant activity except pursuant to a licence.
14. Prohibition against using donated gametes in surrogacy arrangement
Without prejudice to the operation of the Parent and Child Ordinance (Cap. 429), no person shall, for the purposes of a surrogacy arrangement, use gametes other than the gametes of 2 persons who are—
- (a) the parties to a marriage; and
- (b) the persons referred to in paragraph (a)(ii) of the definition of “surrogate mother” in so far as that arrangement is concerned.
15. Prohibitions in connection with embryos, against sex selection and against the provision of reproductive technology procedures to unmarried persons
(1) No person shall—
- (a) for the purposes of embryo research—
- (i) bring about the creation of an embryo; or
- (ii) combine human and non-human gametes or embryos or
- any part thereof such as to give rise to a 2 cell zygote;
- (b) keep or use an embryo after the appearance of the primitive streak;
- (c) place any non-human gametes or embryo or any part thereof in any human;
- (d) place any human gametes or embryo or any part thereof in any animal;
- (e) replace the nucleus of a cell of an embryo with a nucleus taken from any other cell; or
- (f) clone any embryo.
(2) No person shall, for the purposes of a reproductive technology procedure, keep or use any fetal ovarian, or fetal testicular, tissue.
(3) No person shall, by means of a reproductive technology procedure, cause the sex of an embryo to be selected, whether directly or indirectly (including by the implantation of an embryo of a particular sex in the body of a woman), except where—
