Regulation of 10. (1). On and from the commencement of this Act:
hospitals (a) no hospital, unless registered under this Act, shall
conducting the conduct, or associate with, or help in, the removal,
removal, storage or transplantation of any human organ;
storage or (b) no medical practitioner or any other person shall
transplantation conduct, or cause to be conducted, or aid in
of human conducting by himself or through any other person,
organs any activity relating to the removal, storage or
transplantation of any human organ at a place other
than an place registered under this Act; and
(c) no place including a hospital registered under subsection (1) of section 15 shall be used or cause to
be used by any person for the removal, storage or
transplantation of any human organ except for
therapeutic purposes.
(2). Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),
the eyes or the ears may be removed at any place from
the dead body of any donor, for therapeutic purposes, by
a registered medical practitioner.
Explanation: For the purposes of this sub-section, “ears”
includes ear drums and ear bones.
Prohibition of 11. No donor and no person empowered to give authority for the
removal or removal of any human organ shall authorise the removal of
transplantation any human organ for any purpose other than therapeutic
of human purposes.
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organs for any
purpose other
than
therapeutic
purposes.
Explaining 12.
effects, etc., to
donor and
recipient.
No registered medical practitioner shall undertake the
removal or transplantation of any human organ 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.