Human Organ Transplant Act 1987

This Act is the Human Organ Transplant Act 1987.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —“designated officer”, in relation to a hospital, means a person appointed under section 3 to be the designated officer of the hospital;[Deleted by Act 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023]“Director‑General” means the Director‑General of Health;“hospital” means a hospital which is declared by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a hospital for the purposes of this Act or any part of the Act;“licensee”, in relation to a hospital, means a person who is —

authorised to provide an acute hospital service or ambulatory surgical centre service (called in this definition a relevant healthcare service) under a licence granted under the Healthcare Services Act 2020; and

approved to provide the relevant healthcare service at the hospital which is an approved permanent premises (within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Healthcare Services Act 2020);“living donor organ transplant” means the removal of a specified organ from the body of any living person for the purpose of its transplantation into the body of another living person;“medical practitioner” means a person who is registered, or deemed to be registered, as a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Act 1997;“organ” means —

except as provided in paragraph (b), any organ of a human body specified in the First Schedule; and

for the purposes of Parts 4 and 4A, any organ of a human body;“specified organ” means any organ of a human body specified in the Second Schedule;“transplant ethics committee”, in relation to a hospital, means a committee of the hospital appointed under section 16(1).

The Director‑General may appoint, in writing, any medical practitioner to be the designated officer of a hospital for the purposes of this Act.[4