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TRANSPLANTATION AND ANATOMY ACT 1979 - SECT 53

53 Dealing with certain bodies and tissue from commencement of this section

(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement of this section--

(a) an authority mentioned in section 25, 29(1) or 35 of the pre-amended Act was in force in relation to the body of a person who was deceased at that time or tissue removed from the body; or
(b) an authority mentioned in section 29(2), or an authority under section 29(3), of the pre-amended Act applied to tissue that had been removed from the body of a deceased person.

(2) From the commencement of this section, the body or tissue may only be used under this Act to the extent it could lawfully have been used under the post-amended Act if the post-amended Act were in force at the time the authority first had effect.

(3) In this section--

post-amended Act means this Act as in force from the commencement of this section.

pre-amended Act means this Act as in force before the commencement of this section.



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