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HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1982 - SECT 24D Circumstances under which authority may be given

HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1982 - SECT 24D

Circumstances under which authority may be given

A designated officer for a hospital must not give an authority under section 24B in respect of a person unless, where the respiration or the circulation of the blood of the person is being maintained by artificial means, two registered medical practitioners, neither of whom is the designated officer and each of whom has been for a period of not less than five years a registered medical practitioner, have each certified in writing—

        (a)     that the practitioner has carried out a clinical examination of the person while the respiration or the circulation of the blood of that person was being maintained by artificial means; and

        (b)     that, in the practitioner's opinion, at the time of examination, death of the person would occur as a result of the withdrawal of the artificial means of maintaining the respiration or the circulation of the blood of the person.

S. 24E inserted by No. 42/2020 s. 5.