{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-tissue-act-2004-persons-who-lack-capacity-to-consent-and-transplants-regulations-2006/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-tissue-act-2004-persons-who-lack-capacity-to-consent-and-transplants-regulations-2006/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110746082",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Tissue Act 2004 (Persons who Lack Capacity to Consent and Transplants) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-human-tissue-act-2004-persons-who-lack-capacity-to-consent-and-transplants-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Deemed consent to storage and use of relevant material: Northern Ireland",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in any case falling within paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 6 of the Act (storage and use involving material from adults who lack capacity to consent).\n(2) An adult (“P”) who lacks capacity to consent to an activity of a kind mentioned in section 1(1)(d) or (f) of the Act which involves material from P’s body, is deemed to have consented to the activity where—\n(a) the activity is done for a purpose specified in paragraph 4 or 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (the purposes of obtaining information relevant to another person and of transplantation) by a person who is acting in what he reasonably believes to be P’s best interests;\n(b) the activity is done for the purpose of a clinical trial which is authorised and conducted in accordance with the clinical trials regulations; or\n(c) the activity is done for the purpose of research which is ethically approved within the meaning of regulation 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110746082/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:04.452423+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}