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Appeal Board Panel under Human Organ Transplant Ordinance appointed
The Secretary for Food and Health has appointed nine members to the Appeal
Board Panel constituted under section 7I of the Human Organ Transplant
Ordinance.
The appointments, which took effect from September 1, 2011 for three years
until August 31, 2014, were gazetted today (September 9).
The membership list of the Panel is:
Dr Lawrence Li Kwok-chang
Dr Victor Tse Chun-yan
Dr Andrew Yip Wai-chun
Ms Linda Chan Ching-fan
Ms Carine Lam Chuen-wa
Mr Horace Wong Yuk-lun, SC
Dr Marcus Chiu Yu-lung
Ms Kam Yim-mui
Mr Lam Kin-lai
A Government spokesman explained that the Human Organ Transplant Ordinance
(Cap. 465), enacted in 1995, is intended to prohibit commercial dealings in
human organs intended for transplanting, to restrict the transplanting of
human organs between living persons and the transplanting of imported human
organs, and for supplementary purposes connected with those matters.
An exemption mechanism for regulated organ products was provided under the
Human Organ Transplant (Amendment) Ordinance 2004, relevant provisions of
which came into operation on September 1, 2011. The Panel was set up as part
of the mechanism to process appeals against decisions on exemption. More
details can be found at
www.dh.gov.hk/english/useful/hot_exemption.html .
Meanwhile, the spokesman said a number of other related provisions,
including the Human Organ Transplant (Amendment) Regulation 2010 and the
Human Organ Transplant (Appeal Board) Regulation, also came into effect on
September 1, 2011.
The Human Organ Transplant (Amendment) Regulation 2010 makes provision for
technical amendments to the three statutory forms in the Schedule of the
Human Organ Transplant Regulation to be used by prescribed persons to supply
prescribed information to the Human Organ Transplant Board with respect to
removal, transplant and disposal of organs.
The Human Organ Transplant (Appeal Board) Regulation provides the rules and
procedures for the making, processing and determination of appeals to the
Appeal Board constituted under the Human Organ Transplant Ordinance.
Ends/Friday, September 9, 2011
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