Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Human Organ Transplant (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

Amendment of section 2

Section 2 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definition of “hospital” and substituting the following definitions:“ “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 thereof;“licensee”, in relation to a hospital, means the person to whom a licence has been issued under the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act (Cap. 248) in respect of the hospital;“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;”; and

(b)

by deleting the definition of “organ” and substituting the following definitions:“ “organ” means —

(a)

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

(b)

for the purposes of Parts IV and IVA, any organ of a human body;“specified organ” means any organ of a human body as specified in the Second Schedule;“transplant ethics committee”, in relation to a hospital, means a committee of the hospital appointed under section 15B(1).”.

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