Hong Kong Ordinances

PERSONAL DATA (PRIVACY) ORDINANCE - SECT 63A

Human embryos, etc.

(1) Personal data which consist of information showing that an identifiable
individual was, or may have been, born in consequence of a reproductive
technology procedure within the meaning of the Human 
Reproductive Technology Ordinance ( Cap 561) are exempt from the provisions of
data protection principle 6 and section 18(1)(b) except so far as their
disclosure under those provisions is made in accordance with section 33 of
that Ordinance.

(2) Where a data access request relates to personal data which are or, if the
data existed, would be exempt from section 18(1)(b) by virtue of subsection
(1), then the data are also exempt from section 18(1)(a) if the interest
protected by that exemption would be likely to be prejudiced by the disclosure
of the existence or non-existence of the data. (Added 47 of 2000 s. 48)