Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 4): explanatory notes

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Great Britain Scottish Parliament

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TSO (The Stationery Office)

This Act makes provision in relation to activities involving human tissue. The Act contains seven parts, the major ones dealing with: transplantation, research etc.; post-mortem examinations; tissue sample or organs no longer required for Procurator Fiscal purposes. It sets out the Scottish Ministers' duties as respects transplantation, makes provision for the authorisation of the use of parts of the body of a deceased person for purposes of transplantation, research, etc, contains restrictions on transplants involving living donors, and prohibits commercial dealings in human body parts for transplantation. It makes provisions for the authorisation of post-mortem examinations in various circumstances. And where tissue samples or organs are no longer needed for the Fiscal's purposes, the Act provides for tissue samples no longer required for the fiscal's purposes to be retained as part of the deceased's medical record and used without authorisation for diagnostic and audit purposes, and for such tissue samples and organs no longer required for the fiscal's purposes to be used, with authorisation, for education, training or research.

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