{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-tissue-act-2004/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-tissue-act-2004/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/30",
  "legislation_title": "Human Tissue Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-tissue-act-2004",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "“Relevant material”",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, “relevant material” means material, other than gametes, which consists of or includes human cells.\n(2) In this Act, references to relevant material from a human body do not include—\n(a) embryos outside the human body, or\n(b) hair and nail from the body of a living person.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 1.4.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/919, art. 3, Sch. (with art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 20.10.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/2792, art. 2(2)(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 1.3.2006 for specified purposes by S.I. 2006/404, art. 2(3)(4), Sch. (with arts. 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 7.4.2006 for specified purposes by S.I. 2006/404, art. 3(3), Sch. (with arts. 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 31.7.2006 for specified purposes by S.I. 2006/1997, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 1.9.2006 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2006/1997, art. 3(2) (with arts. 4, 7, 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/30/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:57.129059+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."
}