Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006

[F12AEstablishment and maintenance of registerS

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(1)The Scottish Ministers must make arrangements for the establishment and maintenance of a register (referred to in this Part as “the Register”) for the purposes of facilitating—

(a)the carrying out of their duty under section 1(a),

(b)the removal and use of part of the body of a deceased person for transplantation that is authorised by virtue of section 6, 6D, 6E, 6F, 6G, 8, 8D, 10 or, as the case may be, 10A.

(2)The Register must include information relating to—

(a)persons who authorise the removal and use of a part of the person's body after the person's death for transplantation,

(b)persons who do not authorise the removal and use of a part of the person's body after the person's death for transplantation.

(3)The Register is not to be open to public inspection or search.

(4)Information may be kept in the Register in any form the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.]

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