Chapter: 6 Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994

Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994

Objective of the Act

An Act to provide for the regulation of removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes and for the prevention of commercial dealings in human organs and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Important Definitions

Advertisement: includes any form of advertising whether to the public generally or to any section of the public or, individually to selected persons; (b) "Appropriate Authority" means the Appropriate Authority appointed under section 13;

Authorization 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;

Deceased person: means a person in whom permanent dis- appearance of all evidence of life occurs, by reason of brain-stem death or in a cardiopulmonary sense, at any time after live birth has taken place;

Donor: means any person, not less than eighteen years of age, who voluntarily authorizes, the removal of any of his human organs for therapeutic purposes under sub-section (1) or subsection (2) of section 3;

Therapeutic purposes: means systematic treatment of any disease or the measures to improve health according to any particular method or modality; and

Transplantation: means the grafting of any human organ from any living person or deceased person to some other living person for therapeutic purposes.