{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-organ-transplants-establishment-of-relationship-regulations-1998/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-organ-transplants-establishment-of-relationship-regulations-1998/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1428",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Organ Transplants (Establishment of Relationship) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-organ-transplants-establishment-of-relationship-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Human Organ Transplants (Establishment of Relationship) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 8th August 1998.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989;\n“donor” means the living person from who it is proposed to remove an organ with the intention that it be transplanted into another person and “recipient” means that other person;\n“genetic tests” means tests based on DNA variations;\n“tester” means a person who has been approved by the Secretary of State as competent both to specify and to interpret the results of genetic tests.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1428/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:27:30.367015+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."
}