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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....the event of his brain-stem death, no such removal shall be undertaken unless such death is certified, in such form and in such manner and on satisfaction of such conditions and requirements as may be prescribed, by a Board of medical experts consisting of the following, namely:- (i) the registered medical practitioner in charge of the hospital in which brain stem death has occurred: (ii) an independent registered medical practitioner, being a specialist to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority, (iii) a neurologist or a neurosurgeon to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; and (iv) the registered medical practitioner treating the person whose brain -stem death has occurred. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) where brain-stem death of any person, less than eighteen years of age, occurs and is certified under sub-section (6), any of the parents of the deceased person may give authority, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, for the removal of.....

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Eyes (Authority for Use for Therapeutic Purposes) Act, 1982 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1

Title: Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994

State: Central

Year: 1982

.....the event of his brain-stem death, no such removal shall be undertaken unless such death is certified, in such form and in such manner and on satisfaction of such conditions and requirements as may be prescribed, by a Board of medical experts consisting of the following, namely :-- (i) the registered medical practitioner in charge of the hospital in which brain-stem death has occurred; (ii) an independent registered medical practitioner, being a specialist, to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; (iii) a neurologist or a neurosurgeon to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; and (iv) the registered medical practitioner treating the person whose brain-stem death has occurred. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3), where brain-stem death of any person, less than eighteen years of age, occurs and is certified under sub-section (6), any of the parents of the deceased person may give authority, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, for.....

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Ear Drums and Ear Bones (Authority for Use for Therapeutic Purposes) Act, 1982 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1

Title: Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994

State: Central

Year: 1982

.....the event of his brain-stem death, no such removal shall be undertaken unless such death is certified, in such form and in such manner and on satisfaction of such conditions and requirements as may be prescribed, by a Board of medical experts consisting of the following, namely :-- (i) the registered medical practitioner in charge of the hospital in which brain-stem death has occurred; (ii) an independent registered medical practitioner, being a specialist, to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; (iii) a neurologist or a neurosurgeon to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; and (iv) the registered medical practitioner treating the person whose brain-stem death has occurred. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3), where brain-stem death of any person, less than eighteen years of age, occurs and is certified under sub-section (6), any of the parents of the deceased person may give authority, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, for.....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Chapter II

Title: Authority for the Removal of Human Organs

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....the event of his brain-stem death, no such removal shall be undertaken unless such death is certified, in such form and in such manner and on satisfaction of such conditions and requirements as may be prescribed, by a Board of medical experts consisting of the following, namely :-- (i) the registered medical practitioner in charge of the hospital in which brain-stem death has occurred; (ii) an independent registered medical practitioner, being a specialist, to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; (iii) a neurologist or a neurosurgeon to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; and (iv) the registered medical practitioner treating the person whose brain-stem death has occurred. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3), where brain-stem death of any person, less than eighteen years of age, occurs and is certified under sub-section (6), any of the parents of the deceased person may give authority, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, for.....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Section 3

Title: Authority for Removal of Human Organs

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....the event of his brain-stem death, no such removal shall be undertaken unless such death is certified, in such form and in such manner and on satisfaction of such conditions and requirements as may be prescribed, by a Board of medical experts consisting of the following, namely :-- (i) the registered medical practitioner in charge of the hospital in which brain-stem death has occurred; (ii) an independent registered medical practitioner, being a specialist, to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; (iii) a neurologist or a neurosurgeon to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority; and (iv) the registered medical practitioner treating the person whose brain-stem death has occurred. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3), where brain-stem death of any person, less than eighteen years of age, occurs and is certified under sub-section (6), any of the parents of the deceased person may give authority, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, for.....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Chapter I

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....Authority appointed under section 13; (c) " Authorisation Committee" means the committee constituted under clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (4) of section 9; (d) "brain-stem death" means the stage at which all functions of the brain-stem have permanently and irreversibly ceased and is so certified under sub-section (6) of section 3; (e) "deceased person" means a person in whom permanent disappearance of all evidence of life occurs, by reason of brain-stem death or in a cardio-pulmonary sense, at any time of live birth has taken place; (f) "donor" means any person, not less than eighteen years of age, who voluntarily authorises the removal of any of his human organs for therapeutic purposes under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 3; (g) "hospital" includes a nursing home, clinic, medical centre, medical or teaching institution for therapeutic purposes and other like institution; (h) "human organ" means any part of a human body consisting of a structured arrangement of tissues which if wholly removed, cannot be replicated by the body; (i) "near relative" means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister; (j) "notification".....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....Authority appointed under section 13; (c) " Authorisation Committee" means the committee constituted under clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (4) of section 9; (d) "brain-stem death" means the stage at which all functions of the brain-stem have permanently and irreversibly ceased and is so certified under sub-section (6) of section 3; (e) "deceased person" means a person in whom permanent disappearance of all evidence of life occurs, by reason of brain-stem death or in a cardio-pulmonary sense, at any time of live birth has taken place; (f) "donor" means any person, not less than eighteen years of age, who voluntarily authorises the removal of any of his human organs for therapeutic purposes under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 3; (g) "hospital" includes a nursing home, clinic, medical centre, medical or teaching institution for therapeutic purposes and other like institution; (h) "human organ" means any part of a human body consisting of a structured arrangement of tissues which if wholly removed, cannot be replicated by the body; (i) "near relative" means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister; (j) "notification".....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Chapter VII

Title: Miscellaneous

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....for any damage caused or likely to be caused for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of the provisions of this Act. Section 24 - Power to make rules (1) The Central Government may, by notification, make rulesa for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :-- (a) the manner in which and the conditions subject to which any donor may authorise removal before his death, of any human organ of his body under sub-section (1) of section 3; (b) the form and the manner in which a brain-stem death is to be certified and the conditions and requirements which are to be satisfied for that purpose under sub-section (6) of section 3; (c) the form and the manner in which any of the parents may give authority, in the case of brain-stem death of a minor, for the removal of any human organ under sub-section (7) of section 3; (d) the form in which authority for the removal of any human organ from an unclaimed dead body may be given by the person incharge of the management or control of the hospital or.....

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Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 Section 24

Title: Power to Make Rules

State: Central

Year: 1994

.....the manner in which and the conditions subject to which any donor may authorise removal before his death, of any human organ of his body under sub-section (1) of section 3; (b) the form and the manner in which a brain-stem death is to be certified and the conditions and requirements which are to be satisfied for that purpose under sub-section (6) of section 3; (c) the form and the manner in which any of the parents may give authority, in the case of brain-stem death of a minor, for the removal of any human organ under sub-section (7) of section 3; (d) the form in which authority for the removal of any human organ from an unclaimed dead body may be given by the person incharge of the management or control of the hospital or prison, under sub-section (1) of section 5; (e) the steps to be taken for the preservation of the human organ removed from the body of any person, under section 7; (f) the form and the manner in which an application may be jointly made by the donor and the recipient under sub-section (5) of section 9; (g) the manner in which all possible effects, complications and hazards connected with the removal and transplantation is to be explained by the.....

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 Chapter III

Title: Registration of Births and Deaths

State: Central

Year: 1886

.....notice to attend before the Registrar or to sign the entry in the register if he has given such notice in writing and has furnished to the satisfaction of the Registrar such evidence of his identity as may be required by any rules made by the State Government in this behalf.] (2) Until the entry has been so signed, [or the conditions specified in t.he proviso to sub-section (1) have been complied with) the birth or death shall not be deemed to be registered under this Act. (3) When the birth of an illegitimate child is registered, and the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of the child jointly request that person may be registered as the father, the mother and that person must both singthe entry in the register in the presence of the Registrar. ____________________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 9 of 1911, sec. 2. Section 23 - Grant of certificate of Registration of Birth or Death The Registrar of Births and Deaths shall, on application made at the time of registering any birth or death by the person giving notice of the birth or death, and on payment by him of the prescribed fee, give to the applicant a certificate in the prescribed.....

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