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TRANSPLANTATION AND ANATOMY ACT 1983 - SECT 37

37—Act does not prevent specified removals of tissue etc

        (1)         Nothing in this Act applies to or in relation to—

            (a)         the removal of tissue from the body of a living person in the course of a procedure or operation carried out in the interests of the health of the person by a medical practitioner with consent (express or implied) given by or on behalf of the person, or in circumstances necessary for the preservation of the life of the person; or

            (b)         the use of tissue so removed; or

            (c)         the embalming of the body of a deceased person; or

            (d)         the preparation, including the restoration of any disfigurement or mutilation, of the body of a deceased person for the purpose of interment or cremation.

        (2)         In subsection (1)(a) and (1)(b)—

"tissue" has the same meaning as in Part 2.



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