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HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ORDINANCE (3) The Council may from time to time cause to be prepared and published by notice in the Gazette, for the guidance of persons who propose to make an application for a licence, or who are the holders of a licence, guidelines not inconsistent with this Ordinance, indicating the manner in which it proposes to perform any of its functions, or exercise any of its powers, under this Ordinance.

6. Establishment of committees

(1) The Council may establish such committees for the better performance of its functions and exercise of its powers as it thinks fit.

(2) The relevant provisions of Schedule 1 shall have effect with respect to a committee and its members.

(3) Subject to the relevant provisions of Schedule 1, the Council—
 * (a) may appoint—
 * (i) members of the Council;
 * (ii) persons who are not such members (including the person responsible under a licence or the licensee),
 * to be members of a committee; and
 * (b) shall—
 * (i) appoint the chairperson and deputy chairperson of a committee;
 * (ii) determine the number of members of a committee.

(4) Part VII of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1) shall apply to a committee and appointments to the committee except in so far as it is inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance.

(5) The Secretary for Health and Welfare shall appoint a Secretary to a committee.

7. Functions and powers of committees

A committee (including any committee established pursuant to a provision of Schedule 1)—
 * (a) shall perform such functions and may exercise such powers as are—
 * (i) imposed or conferred on it under this Ordinance; or
 * (ii) delegated to it by the Council under section 10; and
 * (b) may, subject to the relevant provisions of Schedule 1 and to any directions of the Council, regulate its own procedure.