The Human Tissue Act 2004 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2006

Transitional arrangements and savings: applications for organ transplants received by the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority (“ULTRA”) before 1^st September 2006

7.—(1) Paragraphs (2) to (4) apply in a case where—

(a) a registered medical practitioner has referred a case to the Unrelated Live Transplant Authority (“ULTRA”) in accordance with—

(i) regulation 3 of the Human Organ Transplants (Unrelated Persons) Regulations 1989(1), or

(ii) regulation 2 of the Human Organ Transplants (Unrelated Persons) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990(2), and

(b) ULTRA has received that reference before 1^st September 2006.

(2) The provisions set out in paragraph (3) shall continue to have effect for the purposes of a case mentioned in paragraph (1) as if those provisions had not been repealed by the Act.

(3) The provisions mentioned in paragraph (2) are—

(a) sections 2 and 4 to 7 of the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989(3),

(b) the Human Organ Transplants (Unrelated Persons) Regulations 1989,

(c) the Human Organ Transplants (Establishment of Relationship) Regulations 1998(4),

(d) articles 1, 2, 4 and 6 of the Human Organ Transplants (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(5)

(e) the Human Organ Transplants (Unrelated Persons) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990,

(f) the Human Organ Transplants (Establishment of Relationship) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(6).

(4) Section 33(1) and (2) of the Act do not have effect for the purposes of a case mentioned in paragraph (1).

(1)

S.I. 1989/2480.

(2)

S.R. 1990/357.

(3)

1989 (c. 31).

(4)

S.I. 1998/1428.

(5)

S.I. 1989/2408 (N.I. 21).

(6)

S.R 1998/389.