Regulation 6B

For the purposes of section 15(1) of the Act, every written authorisation of the transplant ethics committee of a hospital is valid for the period of time determined by the transplant ethics committee, not being a period longer than 60 days from the date the written authorisation is granted.

Upon the expiry of the validity period of a written authorisation as determined by the transplant ethics committee of a hospital in accordance with paragraph (1), a living donor organ transplant must not be carried out in the hospital involving the same prospective donor and prospective recipient except within the validity period of a fresh written authorisation of the transplant ethics committee of the hospital.