New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1983 - SECT 21

21 Unauthorised persons prohibited from carrying on a business of supplying blood or blood products

(1) A person, other than an exempt supplier, must not carry on a business of supplying homologous blood or blood products.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) A person must not participate in the management of a business of supplying homologous blood or blood products unless that business is an exempt supplier.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(3) In this section, a reference to carrying on a business of supplying homologous blood or blood products is a reference to carrying on a business or undertaking of supplying blood or blood products to medical institutions and other persons:

(a) for the purpose of transfusing to persons other than the donor some or all of the blood or blood products, or

(b) for the purpose of using some or all of the blood or blood products for other therapeutic purposes, or for medical or scientific purposes, involving the treatment of persons other than the donor.