Medical (Therapy, Education and Research) Act 1972

Medical (Therapy, Education
and Research) Act 1972

2020 REVISED EDITION

This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021

An Act to make provision for the use of the bodies of deceased persons or parts thereof for purposes of medical or dental education, research, advancement of medical or dental science, therapy and transplantation, and for other purposes connected therewith.

[25 May 1973]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act is the Medical (Therapy, Education and Research) Act 1972.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“deceased person” includes a stillborn infant or foetus;

“designated officer”, in relation to an approved hospital for the purposes of this Act, means a person appointed under section 2A to be the designated officer of the approved hospital;

“Director” means the Director of Medical Services, and includes the Deputy Director of Medical Services and such designated officer of an approved hospital or such public officer as is authorised by the Director of Medical Services in writing to act on the Director’s behalf;

“donor” means an individual who makes a gift of all or any part of his or her body;

“part”, in relation to a human body, includes organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids and other portions of a human body.

Appointment of designated officers

2A. The Director of Medical Services may appoint, in writing, any senior official of the Ministry of Health or senior executive of an approved hospital for the purposes of this Act, to be the designated officer of any approved hospital for the purposes of this Act.

Approved hospitals, etc.

2B. The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare a hospital, medical or dental school, college or university to be an approved hospital, medical or dental school, college or university for the purposes of this Act.

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