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HUMAN TISSUE AND TRANSPLANT ACT 1982 - SECT 9

9 .         Consent to removal of non-regenerative tissue

        (1)         A person who — 

            (a)         has attained the age of 18 years;

            (b)         is of sound mind; and

            (c)         is in the light of medical advice furnished to him prepared to do so,

                may, by writing signed by him otherwise than in the presence of any member of his family or any of his friends, consent to the removal, after the expiration of a period of 24 hours from the time at which the consent is signed, from his body of non-regenerative tissue specified in the consent for the purpose of the transplantation of the tissue to the body of another living person.

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



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