New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1983 - SECT 11

11 Medical practitioners’ certificates

A medical practitioner may certify in writing:

(a) that the consent in writing of a parent of a child, the terms of which consent are set out in the certificate, was given in the presence of the medical practitioner,

(b) that the medical practitioner explained to the parent and to the child, before the consent was given, the nature and effect of the removal from the child’s body of the tissue specified in the consent and the intended effect of its proposed transplantation, and

(c) that the medical practitioner is satisfied that, at the time the consent was given:

(i) the parent and the child were each of sound mind,

(ii) the parent and the child each understood the nature and effect of the removal of the tissue and the intended effect of its proposed transplantation,

(iii) the consent was freely given, and

(iv) the child was in agreement with the proposed removal and transplantation of the tissue.