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HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1982 - SECT 11 Effect of consent under section 8

HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1982 - SECT 11

Effect of consent under section 8

Subject to section 12, a document that purports to be a consent given in accordance with section 8 is, where a certificate has been given in accordance with section 9 in relation to that consent, sufficient authority for a registered medical practitioner, other than the registered medical practitioner who gave the certificate, to remove, at any time after the expiration of 24 hours from the time specified in the consent to be the time at which the consent was given, the non-regenerative tissue specified in the consent for the purpose of the transplantation of the tissue to the body of another living person.

S. 12 amended by No. 23/1994 s. 118(Sch.  1 item 27.6).