s.20Unauthorised selling of human tissue prohibited
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Section 20Part 5 — PROHIBITION OF TRADING IN HUMAN TISSUE

Unauthorised selling of human tissue prohibited

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Subject to this section, a person shall not sell, agree to sell, or agree to receive benefits for, tissue (including that person's own tissue) or the right to take tissue from that person's body.
Nothing in subsection (1) applies to a sale, or an agreement to sell, to a person who is, or is reasonably believed by the vendor to be, acting subject to, and in accordance with, a permit granted under section 21(3).
Subsection (1) does not apply to the receiving of reasonable costs associated with the transportation, removal, evaluation, storage and processing of tissue to, from or at a tissue bank and the distribution from the tissue bank of tissue removed in accordance with this Act.

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tissuetissue bank

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