New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1983 - SECT 21W

21W Application

(1) This Part applies with respect to the use of tissue removed from the body of a living person during medical, dental or surgical treatment carried out in the interests of the health of the person. This Part does not authorise the removal of tissue from the body of a person after that person’s death or the use of any tissue so removed.

Note: See Parts 4 and 5 in relation to the removal of tissue after a person’s death and the use of that tissue.

(2) This Part does not apply to or in respect of the following:

(a) tissue that is removed in accordance with Part 2,

(b) blood that is removed in accordance with Part 3,

(c) semen obtained or received from a donor in accordance with Part 3.