Singapore legislation

Regulation 19

of Human Biomedical Research (Tissue Banking) Regulations 2019

Regulation 19

Policy on incidental findings

Every tissue bank must —

(a)

formulate a policy on whether or not the tissue donor should be re‑identified and informed in the case of an incidental finding in relation to a tissue; and

(b)

inform all donors and recipients of every tissue received by the tissue bank on or after 1 November 2019 —

(i)

of the details of the policy mentioned in paragraph (a); and

(ii)

if the policy provides for the donor to be re‑identified and informed in the case of an incidental finding, whether the donor has expressed a wish to be re‑identified and informed.