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Human Organ Transplant Act 1987 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4A · Living Donor Organ Transplants

17. Regulation of transplant ethics committees

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2023.

(1)

Where the Director‑General is of the opinion that the transplant ethics committee of a hospital is not discharging its functions in accordance with this Act or in a satisfactory manner, the Director‑General may do one or more of the following:

(a)

direct the transplant ethics committee to suspend all or any part of its activities;

(b)

direct the licensee of the hospital to remove or replace any member of the transplant ethics committee;

(c)

direct the licensee of the hospital to dissolve the transplant ethics committee and appoint a new transplant ethics committee in its place.

(2)

Until the direction of the Director‑General issued under subsection (1) has been complied with —

(a)

the licensee of the hospital must ensure that no living donor organ transplant authorised under section 15(1) is carried out in the hospital; and

(b)

no person is to carry out any such living donor organ transplant in the hospital,unless otherwise allowed by the Director‑General and in accordance with such conditions as the Director‑General may impose.

(3)

Any written authorisation given by the transplant ethics committee in respect of which a direction has been issued under subsection (1) remains valid unless rescinded by the Director‑General.

(4)

Any person who contravenes subsection (2)(a) or (b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.[15C