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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-tissue-act-2004-commencement-no3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2005/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2792",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Tissue Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-tissue-act-2004-commencement-no3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Until section 33 of the Act (restriction on transplants involving a live donor) comes fully into force—\n(a) in section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 (trafficking people for exploitation), the reference to sections 32 and 33 of the Act shall be read as a reference to section 32 of the Act and to the Human Organ Transplants (Northern Ireland) Order 1989;\n(b) in section 2(3) of the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989 (restrictions on transplants between persons who are not genetically related), the reference to section 1 of that Act shall be read as a reference to section 1 of that Act and to section 32 of the Act;\n(c) in regulation 3(1)(a) of the Human Organ Transplants (Unrelated Persons) Regulations 1989 (transplants between persons who are not genetically related), the reference to section 1 of the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989 shall be read a reference to section 1 of the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989 and to section 32 of the Act;\n(d) in Article 4(3) of the Human Organ Transplants (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (restriction on transplants between persons not genetically related), the reference to Article 3 of that Order shall be read as a reference to section 32 of the Act;\n(e) in regulation 2(1)(a) of the Human Organ Transplants (Unrelated Persons) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990 (transplants between persons who are not genetically related), the reference to Article 3 of the Human Organ Transplants (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 shall be read as a reference to section 32 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2480."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1990/357."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2792/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}