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Authority for removal of '[human organs or tissues or both],--(/) Any donor mav in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, authorise the removal, before his death 0 a,y thuman or£an or tIssue 0!' both] of his body for therapeutic purposes. ’ [(1A) For the purpose of removal, storage or transplantation of such human organs or tissues or both as may be prescnbed, ,t shall be the duty of the registered medical practitioner worldng in a hosph^ .n consultation with transplant co-ordinator, it such transplant co-ordinator is available,— ’ (0 to ascertain from the person admitted to the Intensive Care Unit or from his near relative that hoh authonsed at any time before his death the removal of any human organ or tissue or such m hurtatfon, " 'he h°Spi,alShal1 proceed 10 obain ,he -lolimenlalion for aw ii') m 'T , n0 SUCh aUlh0rily as referred ,0 in sub-seclion (2) was made by such person, to make aware to that person or near relative for option to authorise or decline for donation of human organs or tissues or both; 0i <mi) to require the hospital to inform in writing to the Human Organ Removal Centre for removal storage or transplantation of human organs or tissues or both of the donor identified in clauses (/) anci (/"/) in such manner as may be prescribed (IB) The duties mentioned under clauses (/) to (Hi) of sub-section (l A) from such date, as mav be prescribed, shall also apply in the case of a registered medical practitioner working in an Intensive Care Unit in a hospital which is not registered under this Act for the purpose of removal, storage or transplantation of human organs or tissues or both.] 11 a,y donor bad, in writing and in the presence of two or more witnesses at least one of whom is a near relative of such person), unequivocally authorised at any time before his death the removal ot any human organ of his body, after his death, for therapeutic purposes the person lawfully in possession of the dead body of the donor shall, unless he has any reason to believe that the donor had subsequently revoked the authority aforesaid, grant to a registered medical practitioner aU.reasonable facilities for the removal, for therapeutic purposes, of that -[human organ or tissue or both] from the dead body of the donor. (j ) Where no such authority as is referred to in sub-section (2), was made by any person before his death but no objection was also expressed by such person to any of his '[human organs or tissues or both] being used after his death tor therapeutic purposes, the person lawfully in possession of the dead body o such peison may, unless he has reason to believe that any near relative of the deceased person has objection to any of the deceased person’s '[human organs or tissues or both] being used for therapeutic purposes, authorise the removal of any '[human organ or tissue or both] of the deceased person for its use for therapeutic purposes. (4) The authority given under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or, as the case may be. CHAPTER II sub-section (3) shall be sufficient warrant for the removal, for therapeutic purposes, of the “[human ? VJI IIIL LJJUII laii oigan oi tissue or both]; but no such removal shall be made by any person other than the registered medical practitioner: ’ & [Provided that a technician possessing such qualifications and experience, as may be prescribed may enucleate a cornea.] (5) W here any [human organ or tissue or both] is to be removed from the body of a deceased person, the registered medical practitioner^ shall satisfy himself, before such removal, by a personal examination ol the body from which any “[human organ or tissue or both] is to be removed, that life is extinct in such body or, where it appears to be a case of brain-stem death, that such death has been certified under sub-section (6). (6) Where any "[human organ or tissue or both] is to be removed from the body of a person in the event of his brain-stem death, no such removal shall be undertaken unless such death is certified, in such 1 2 3