Acts and Regulations

2014, c.113 - Human Tissue Gift Act

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Offence and penalty
10(1)No person shall buy, sell or otherwise deal in, directly or indirectly, for a valuable consideration, any human tissue for a transplant or any human body or part of any human body, other than blood or a blood constituent, for therapeutic purposes or for the purposes of medical education or scientific research.
10(2)A person who knowingly violates or fails to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence punishable under Part 2 of the Provincial Offences Procedure Act as a category J offence.
10(3)No person commits an offence under subsection (2) if that person, for a valuable consideration, participates in, or performs a service necessarily incidental to, the process by which a transplant of human tissue is effected or a human body or part of the body is prepared for use for therapeutic purposes or for the purposes of medical education or scientific research.
2004, c.H-12.5, s.10