Authorisation by senior available next of kin before death
19 Authorisation by senior available next of kin before death
(1) The senior available next of kin of a person in a hospital (the patient) may advise the designated officer for the hospital at any time the patient is unconscious and before death that the next of kin has no objection to the removal of tissue from the patient's body for an authorised purpose after the patient's death.
(2) The advice authorises the removal of the tissue from the patient's body for an authorised purpose after the patient's death.
However, subsection (2) does not apply if:
(a) there is more than one senior available next of kin of the patient; and
one of them:
has an objection to the removal of the tissue; and
advises the designated officer of the objection.
(4) Also, the advice ceases to have effect if the patient regains consciousness.
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