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HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1982 - SECT 38 Unauthorized selling of tissue prohibited

HUMAN TISSUE ACT 1982 - SECT 38

Unauthorized selling of tissue prohibited

    (1)     Subject to this section, a person shall not sell, or agree to sell, tissue (including his own tissue) or the right to take tissue from his body.

Penalty:     50 penalty units.

    (2)     Nothing in subsection (1) applies to a sale, or an agreement to sell, to a person who is, or is reasonably believed by the vendor to be, acting subject to, and in accordance with, a permit granted under section 39(2).

S. 38(3) inserted by No. 63/1995 s. 168(1), amended by Nos 11/2003 s. 25(1), 72/2008 s. 27.

    (3)     Subsection (1) does not apply to the receiving of reasonable expenses of a kind referred to in section 17 of the Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2008 .