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TRANSPLANTATION AND ANATOMY ACT 1979 - SECT 42

42 Unauthorised selling of tissue prohibited

(1) Subject to this section, a person shall not sell, agree to sell, offer to sell, hold himself or herself out as being willing to sell, or inquire whether a person is willing to buy from the person or another person--

(a) tissue (including his or her own tissue); or
(b) the right to take tissue from his or her body or the body of that other person.

Maximum penalty--10 penalty units or 3 months imprisonment.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) applies to a sale, or an agreement to sell, to a person who is, or is reasonably believed by the vendor to be, acting subject to, and in accordance with a permit granted under section 40(2).



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