Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Regulations 2020

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 20 February 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mark Coulton

Minister for Regional Services, Decentralisation and Local Government

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

6 Substances that are not tissue

7 Alternative name for Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority

8 Parent or guardian may consent to publication or dissemination of information likely to enable identification of donor under 18

Schedule 1—Repeals

Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Regulations 2009

1  Name

  This instrument is the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Regulations 2020.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Act 2008.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Act 2008.

6  Substances that are not tissue

  For the purposes of the definition of tissue in section 4 of the Act, the following substances are specified:

 (a) blood and blood products, including progenitor cells such as those in cord blood or bone marrow;

 (b) reproductive tissue, including sperm and eggs;

 (c) foetal tissue;

 (d) stem cell tissue.

7  Alternative name for Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority

  The name Organ and Tissue Authority is specified for the purposes of subsection 8(2) of the Act.

8  Parent or guardian may consent to publication or dissemination of information likely to enable identification of donor under 18

  For the purposes of paragraph 58(2)(c) of the Act, a parent or legal guardian of a donor who is aged less than 18 years is authorised to give consent to the publication or dissemination of information.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Regulations 2009

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.