Section 12

Explaining effects, etc., to donor and recipient.

The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994

  • Act 42 of 1994
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • Department of Health and Family Welfare
About this Act

An Act to provide for the regulation of removal, storage and transplantation of human organs and tissues for therapeutic purposes and for the prevention of commercial dealings in human organs and tissues and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

All sections
    No registered medical practitioner shall undertake the removal or transplantation of any 1[human organ or tissue or both] unless he has explained, in such manner as may be prescribed, all possible effects, complications and hazards connected with the removal and transplantation to the donor and the recipient respectively.

Notes

1. Subs. by Act 16 of 2011, s. 4, for "human organ" (w.e.f. 10-1-2014).

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