Human Organ Transplant Act 1987 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Miscellaneous
26. Act does not prevent specified removal of organ, etc.
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the removal of any organ from the body of a living person in the course of a procedure or an operation carried out, in the interests of the person’s health, by a medical practitioner with the consent, express or implied, given by or on behalf of the person or in circumstances necessary for the preservation of the person’s life;
organ
“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 4 and 4A, any organ of a human body;
the use of any organ so removed;
the embalming of the body of a deceased person; or
the preparation, including the restoration of any disfigurement or mutilation, of the body of a deceased person for the purpose of interment or cremation.[16