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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make provision for cases in which the prohibition of transplants between living persons who are not genetically related in section 2(1) of the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989 does not apply.

Regulation 2 provides for the establishment and constitution of the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority for the purposes of section 2(3) of the Act.

Regulation 3 specifies the conditions which are required to be satisfied in cases to which the Regulations apply. These include the Authority being satisfied that no payment has been or is to be made for a human organ in contravention of section 1 of the Act.