Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1978

Subject to section 19, a document that purports to be a consent given in accordance with section 9 is, if a certificate has been given in accordance with section 10 in relation to that consent, sufficient authority for a doctor, other than the doctor who gave the certificate, to remove, at any time after the end of 24 hours from the time specified in the consent to be the time when the consent was given, the non-regenerative tissue specified in the consent for the purpose of the transplantation of the tissue to the body of another living person.