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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Act” means the National Health Service Act 1977;
“the Authority” means the United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority established by the United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1991(1)
“donor” means a person who provides or offers to provide any of his organs with a view to the organ being transplanted into another person, and includes a dead person from whom an organ is retrieved;
“member” in relation to the Authority does not include its chairman;
“NHS trust” means an NHS trust established in pursuance of section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;(2)
“non-officer member” and “office member” mean respectively a member who is not, or who is, an officer of the Authority;
“organ” means any part of a human body or any product derived from the human body;
“recipient” means a person who undergoes or is to undergo a surgical operation for the implantation of one or more organs removed from a living or dead person;
“transplant centre” means a hospital or other institution, or department of it, which undertakes surgical operations for the transplantation of human organs.
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