Certificate of medical practitioner
10 Certificate of medical practitioner
(1) This section applies in relation to consent under section 8 given by the donor personally or by another individual as permitted by the Health Care Decision Making Act 2023.
A medical practitioner may certify in writing:
(a) that the consent in writing of a person, the terms of which consent are set out in the certificate, was given in the medical practitioner's presence; and
(b) that the medical practitioner explained to the person before the consent was given the nature and effect of the removal of the tissue specified in the consent; and
that the medical practitioner is satisfied:
(i) that, at the time the consent was given, the person had attained the age of 18 years; and
that, at that time, the person was of sound mind; and
that the consent was freely given.
Division 3 Effect of consent
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