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(3) An adult may by notice given to the Council require the Council to comply with a request under subsection (4), and the Council shall do so if—

(a) the information contained in Register A shows that the adult was, or may have been, born in consequence of a reproductive technology procedure which falls within subsection (2); and

(b) the adult has been given a suitable opportunity to receive proper counselling about the implications of compliance with the request.

(4) The adult may request the Council to give him notice stating whether or not the information contained in Register A shows that a person other than a parent of the adult would or might, but for sections 9, 10 and 11 of the Parent and Child Ordinance (Cap. 429), be a parent of the adult and, if it does show that—

(a) giving the adult so much of that information as relates to the person concerned as the Council is required by regulations made under section 45(1)(d) to give (but no other information); or

(b) stating whether or not that information shows that, but for those sections, the adult, and a person specified in the request as a person whom the adult proposes to marry, would or might be related.

(5) Regulations made under section 45(1)(d) shall not require the Council to give any information as to the identity of a person whose gametes have been used or from whom an embryo has been taken if a person to whom a licence applied was provided with the information at a time when the Council could not have been required to give information of the kind in question.

(6) No information contained in Register A shall be removed therefrom at any time before the expiration of 80 years from the date on which the information was first entered in Register A.

(7) In this section, “adult” (成年人) means a person who has attained the age of 16 years.

34. Secrecy

(1) No person who is or has been—

(a) an authorized person; or

(b) a person to whom a licence applies or the holder of a licence,

shall disclose any information contained or required to be contained in Register A.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any disclosure of information made—

(a) to a person as an authorized person;

(b) to a person to whom a licence applies, or a licensee, for the purposes of his functions as such;