Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

TRANSPLANTATION AND ANATOMY ACT 1978 - SECT 46

    (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; or

        (b)     the use of tissues 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 internment or cremation.

    (2)     In subsection (1):

"tissue"—see section 6.