Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Sections 6-A, 6-B, 6-C and 6-D Inserted by the Act.No.10 of 1986, S.5. 6-B. Authority for removal of eyes from bodies sent for postmortem examination for medico legal or pathological purposes – where the body of a person has been sent for post-mortem examination. (a) for a medico-legal purposes by reason of the death of such person having been caused by accident or any other unnatural cause; or (b) for pathological purposes, the person competent under this Act to give authority for the removal of the eyes from such dead body may, if he has reason to believe that the eyes will not be required for the purposes for which such body has been sent for post-mortem examination, authorise the removal for therapeutic purposes of the eyes of such deceased person provided that he is satisfied that the deceased person had not expressed, before his death, any objection to his eyes being used for therapeutic purposes after his death or, where he had granted an authority for the use of his eyes for therapeutic purposes after his death, such authority had not been revoked by him before his death. 6-C. Preservation of eyes removed from dead bodies – After the removal of eyes from the body of the deceased person, the registered medical practitioner (Opthalmic) shall take such steps for the preservation of the eyes so removed as may be prescribed. 6-D. Protection of action taken in good faith - No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.]