Human Organ Transplant Act 1987 s 26

s 26 Act does not prevent specified removal of organ, etc.

26. Nothing in this Act applies to or in relation to —(a) the removal of any organ from the body of a living person in the course of a procedure or an operation carried out, in the interests of the person’s health, by a medical practitioner with the consent, express or implied, given by or on behalf of the person or in circumstances necessary for the preservation of the person’s life; (b) the use of any organ so removed; (c) the embalming of the body of a deceased person; or (d) the preparation, including the restoration of any disfigurement or mutilation, of the body of a deceased person for the purpose of interment or cremation.[16

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