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HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ORDINANCE :(a) the cost of removing, transporting or storing an embryo or gamete to be supplied;
 * (b) any expenses or loss of earnings incurred by a person and attributable to the person supplying an embryo or gamete from the person’s body;
 * (c) in the case of a surrogacy arrangement, any expenses incurred by the surrogate mother for—
 * (i) any reproductive technology procedure; or
 * (ii) bona fide medical expenses arising from pregnancy and delivery of a child born pursuant to the arrangement;

“person responsible” (負責人), in relation to a licence, means the individual specified in the licence as the individual under whose supervision the activities authorized by the licence shall be carried on;

“practicable” (切實可行) means reasonably practicable;

“Register A” (甲登記冊) means the register kept and maintained under section 33(1);

“relevant activity” (有關活動) means an activity which consists of or involves—
 * (a) the provision of a reproductive technology procedure;
 * (b) the conducting of embryo research; or
 * (c) the handling, storing or disposing of a gamete or embryo used or intended to be used in connection with a reproductive technology procedure or embryo research;

“reproductive technology procedure” (生殖科技程序) means a medical, surgical, obstetric or other procedure (whether or not it is provided to the public or a section of the public) assisting or otherwise bringing about human reproduction by artificial means, and includes—
 * (a) in vitro fertilization;
 * (b) artificial insemination;
 * (c) the obtaining of gametes;
 * (d) manipulation of embryos or gametes outside the body;
 * (e) a procedure specified in a notice under subsection (2)(a)(ii) to be a reproductive technology procedure; and
 * (f) a gender selection achieved or intended to be achieved by means of a procedure which falls within this definition,

but excludes a procedure specified in a notice under subsection (2)(b)(ii) not to be a reproductive technology procedure;

“surrogacy arrangement” (代母安排) means an arrangement by virtue of which a woman to whom it relates would be a surrogate mother were she to carry a child pursuant to the arrangement;

“surrogate mother” (代母) means a woman who carries a child—
 * (a) pursuant to an arrangement—
 * (i) made before she began to carry the child; and