Section 16Part 3 — DONATIONS OF TISSUE BY LIVING PERSONS
Child or adult no longer in agreement
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16. (1) The following provisions of this section apply where a registered medical practitioner has given a certificate in accordance with section 9 or 13(2) and the child or the adult in relation to whom the certificate has been given informs a registered medical practitioner who is attending the child or adult in a professional capacity, that the child or adult is no longer in agreement with the proposed removal and transplantation of tissue.
The registered medical practitioner so informed, shall immediately inform the medical practitioner proposing to remove the tissue from the body of the child or the adult that the child or adult is no longer in agreement with the proposed removal and transplantation of tissue.
A person who is informed that the child or the adult is no longer in agreement with the proposed removal and transplantation of tissue shall, if that person has in that person’s possession the instrument of consent that relates to the removal and transplantation of the tissue, surrender to the person who gave the consent —
that instrument; and
if the certificate given in accordance with section 9 or 13(2) is in that person’s possession, that certificate; but a copy of any such instrument or certificate shall be retained in the donor’s medical records.
A registered medical practitioner whom a child or an adult informs that that person is no longer in agreement with the proposed removal and transplantation of tissue under subsection (1) shall immediately record the fact in writing and shall retain the record for not less than three years.