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Organ transplants and disposal of the human body

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This Act provides for the use of the bodies of deceased persons for therapeutic purposes and purposes of medical examination and research.

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  1. HSC(IS) 156; June 1975.

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  2. This advice is almost certainly legally correct: see R v Feist (1858) Dears B 590 and William v Williams (1882) 20 Ch D 659.

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  3. See Code of Practice prepared by a Working Party established by the United Kingdom Health Departments under the chairmanship of Lord Smith of Marlow; Department of Health, 1978.

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  4. HC(77)28.

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  5. Anatomy Act 1984 (Commencement) Order 1988, SI 1988/81.

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  6. SI 1988/44, as amended by SI 1988/198.

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  7. SI 1989/2480.

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  8. SI 1989/2017.

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  9. Human Organ Transplants Act 1989, section 5.

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  10. SI 1989/2108, as amended by SI 1991/408 and SI 1991/1645.

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  11. Regulation 2(1)(a)(ii).

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  12. HM(72)41.

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  14. Coroners Act 1988, section 19(3).

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  15. SI 1984/552, as amended by SI 1985/1414.

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  16. Rule 6.

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  17. Rule 7.

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  18. Rule 8.

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  19. Rule 10(2).

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  20. Rule 11(3).

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  21. SI 1991/554, regulation 10(1)(d).

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  22. SI 1989/2108, as amended by SI 1991/1645.

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  23. Anatomy Act 1984, section 2.

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  24. Anatomy Act 1984, section 4.

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  25. SI 1988/44.

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  26. Except eyes, which are separately provided for; see section 1(4A)(b).

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  27. Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, section 41, as amended by the Still Birth Definition Act 1992.

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  28. Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, section 11.

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  29. SI 1984/552.

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  30. Rules 24 and 25.

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  31. Rule 20.

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  32. Rule 21.

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  33. Rule 22.

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  34. Rule 42.

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  1. Leicester University, UK

    John Finch (Senior Lecturer in Law, member of the Mental Health Act Commission for England and Wales)

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Finch, J. (1994). Organ transplants and disposal of the human body. In: Speller’s Law Relating to Hospitals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7122-7_25

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