{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-organ-transplants-unrelated-persons-regulations-1989/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-organ-transplants-unrelated-persons-regulations-1989/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2480",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Organ Transplants (Unrelated Persons) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-organ-transplants-unrelated-persons-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Human Organ Transplants (Unrelated Persons) Regulations 1989.\n(2) Regulations 1 and 2 of these Regulations shall come into force on 1st January 1990 and regulation 3 on 1st April 1990.\n(3) In these Regulations:—\n“the Act” means the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989;\n“the Authority” means the authority constituted by regulation 2 of these Regulations;\n“donor” means a living person from whom it is proposed to remove an organ;\n“recipient” means a person into whom it is proposed to transplant an organ.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2480/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:05.214618+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."
}