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 .