Human Organ Transplant Act 1987 - Singapore Statutes Online

Human Organ Transplant
Act 1987

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 removal of organs for transplantation, for the prohibition of trading in organs and blood, and for purposes connected therewith.

[16 July 1987]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act is the Human Organ Transplant Act 1987.

Interpretation

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

“designated officer”, in relation to a hospital, means a person appointed under section 3 to be the designated officer of the hospital;

[Deleted by Act 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023]

“Director‑General” means the Director‑General of Health;

[Act 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023]

“hospital” means a hospital which is declared by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a hospital for the purposes of this Act or any part of the Act;

“licensee”, in relation to a hospital, means a person —

(a)	to whom a licence has been issued under the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act 1980^* in respect of the hospital; or
(b)	who is authorised to provide an acute hospital service under a licence granted under the Healthcare Services Act 2020; [Act 3 of 2020 wef 03/01/2022]

“living donor organ transplant” means the removal of a specified organ from the body of any living person for the purpose of its transplantation into the body of another living person;

“medical practitioner” means a person who is registered, or deemed to be registered, as a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Act 1997;

“organ” means —

(a)	except as provided in paragraph (b), any organ of a human body specified in the First Schedule; and
(b)	for the purposes of Parts 4 and 4A, any organ of a human body;

“specified organ” means any organ of a human body specified in the Second Schedule;

“transplant ethics committee”, in relation to a hospital, means a committee of the hospital appointed under section 16(1).

[*Updated to be consistent with the 2020 Revised Edition]

Designated officers

3. The Director‑General may appoint, in writing, any medical practitioner to be the designated officer of a hospital for the purposes of this Act.

[Act 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023]

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