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HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY
ORDINANCE

Ord. No. 47 of 2000
A1759


(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).

45. Regulations—general

(1) The Secretary for Health and Welfare may make regulations for all or any of following matters—

(a) the registers to be kept and maintained by the Council in addition to Register A;
(b) without prejudice to the generality of section 5(1)(a), information to be furnished to the Secretary for Health and Welfare concerning the activities of the Council in any period specified in the regulations;
(c) specifying a relevant activity which a licence, or a licence belonging to a class of licence specified in the regulations, shall not authorize notwithstanding any other provision of this Ordinance;
(d) subject to section 33(5), specifying the information required to be given under section 33(4)(a);
(e) imposing restrictions on the disclosure of information which is not information falling within section 34(1) but is information obtained by an authorized person, a person to whom a licence applies, or a licensee, on terms or in circumstances requiring it to be held in confidence.

(2) The Council may make regulations for all or any of the following matters—

(a) without prejudice to the generality of section 23(1)(a), the conditions to be attached to—
(i) every licence; or