Domestic Violence Act, 1998
R 385
National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003)Chapter 8 : Control of use of blood, blood products, tissue and gametes in humans58. Removal and transplantation of human tissue in hospital or authorised institution |
(1) | A person may not remove tissue from a living person for transplantation in another living person or carry out the transplantation of such tissue except— |
(a) | in a hospital or an authorised institution; and |
(b) | on the written authority of- |
(i) | the medical practitioner in charge of clinical services in that hospital or authorised institution, or any other medical practitioner authorised by him or her; or |
(ii) | in the case where there is no medical practitioner in charge of the clinical services at that hospital or authorised institution, a medical practitioner authorised thereto by the person in charge of the hospital or authorised institution. |
(2) | The medical practitioner contemplated in subsection (1)(b) may not participate in a transplant for which he or she has granted authorisation in terms of that subsection. |