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Prevention and Control of Disease (Vaccine Pass) Regulation

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Part 4
Miscellaneous

17. Specified medical exemption certificate

(1) For the purposes of this Regulation, a medical certificate is a specified medical exemption certificate only if the medical certificate—

(a) contains an opinion from a registered medical practitioner that the person to whom it is issued is clinically assessed to be unsuitable for being vaccinated with whichever type of the specified vaccines;

(b) specifies a period within which the certificate is valid;

(c) shows the date of issue of the certificate;

(d) is in a form specified by the Director; and

(e) if the certificate is in hard copy form, is signed by the registered medical practitioner issuing the certificate.

(2) To avoid doubt, the opinion under subsection (1)(a) must not be confined to any particular type of the specified vaccines.

(3) In this section—

registered medical practitioner (註冊醫生) has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Medical Registration Ordinance (Cap. 161);

specified vaccines (指明疫苗) means the vaccines that are currently available in Hong Kong and are—

(a) authorized under section 3(1) of the Prevention and Control of Disease (Use of Vaccines) Regulation (Cap. 599 sub. leg. K); or