Human Organ Transplant Act

(CHAPTER 131A)

(Original Enactment: Act 15 of 1987)

REVISED EDITION 1988

(30th April 1988)

An Act to make provision for the removal of organs from the bodies of persons who died as a result of accident for transplantation, for the definition of death and for the prohibition of trading in organs and blood and for purposes connected therewith.

[16th July 1987]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Human Organ Transplant Act.

Interpretation

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

“designated officer”, in relation to a hospital, means a person appointed under section 4 to be the designated officer of the hospital;

“Director” means the Director of Medical Services;

“hospital” means —

(a)	a hospital established and administered by the Government;
(b)	a private hospital which is declared by the Minister by notification in the Gazette to be a hospital for the purposes of this Act;

“medical practitioner” means a person who is registered, or deemed to be registered, as a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Act [Cap. 174];

“organ” means —

(a)	except as provided in paragraph (b), the kidney of a human body; and
(b)	for the purposes of Part IV, any organ of a human body.

3. [Repealed by Act 22/98 wef 02/11/1998]

Designated officers

4. The Director may nominate, in writing, any medical practitioner to be the designated officer of a hospital for the purposes of this Act.

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