Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HUMAN TISSUE AND TRANSPLANT ACT 1982 - SECT 32

32 .         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 the 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;

            (b)         the use of tissue so removed;

            (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 this section, tissue has the same meaning as in Part II.