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TRANSPLANTATION AND ANATOMY ACT 1983 - SECT 9

9—Consent by adult living donor to removal of regenerative tissue

        (1)         A person who—

            (a)         is not a child; and

            (b)         in the light of medical advice furnished to him understands the nature and effect of the removal,

may, by writing signed by him otherwise than in the presence of any members of his family, consent to the removal from his body of regenerative tissue, other than blood, specified in the consent—

            (c)         for the purpose of the transplantation of the tissue to the body of another living person; or

            (d)         for use for other therapeutic purposes or for medical or scientific purposes.

        (2)         A person who has given a consent referred to in subsection (1) may, at any time before the removal of the regenerative tissue to which the consent applies, revoke, either orally or in writing, his consent to the removal.



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