Medical (Therapy, Education and Research) Act 1972 s 4

s 4 Relatives may donate body of deceased person

4.—(1) Any of the persons specified in the Schedule, in the order of priority stated, when persons in prior classes are not available at the time of death, and in the absence of actual notice of contrary indications by the deceased person, or actual notice of opposition of a member of the same class or a prior class, may give all or any part of the body of the deceased person for the purposes specified in section 7. (2) The persons authorised by subsection (1) may make the gift after death or immediately before death.