Human Tissue And Body Parts Legislation Passed With Hardly Any Responses To The Consultation

21st September 2020

For a topic so much discussed over the years it is surprising how few people or organisations responded to the consultation so presumably most people are in favour of the change to an opt out system.

Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Excepted Body Parts) (Scotland) Regulations: Analysis of consultation responses.

Analysis of responses to a consultation held on the proposed content of the Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Excluded Body Parts) (Scotland) Regulations.

Between 14 February and 27 March 2020 the Scottish Government undertook a public consultation to gather views on parts of the body that deemed authorisation will not apply to, once an ‘opt out' system of deceased organ and tissue donation is brought into force.

The Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Scotland) Act 2019 (‘the 2019 Act'), will introduce an opt out system of deceased donation in Scotland, replacing the current ‘opt in' model. This would follow Wales, which introduced such a system in December 2015 and England, where an opt out system of donation came into force on 20 May 2020.

Following delay to implementation as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it has now been announced that the 2019 Act will come into force on 26 March 2021.

See the report HERE