Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order made by the Welsh Ministers brings into force the provisions of the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013 (“the Act”).

Article 2 brings certain provisions of the Act into force on 12 September 2015 for the purposes of making regulations.

Article 3 brings all other provisions of the Act into force on 1 December 2015 except for —

(a)

subsection 14(3)(b) (which requires the consent of the coroner in certain circumstances before acting on authority under section 13 to preserve a part of a body for transplantation);

(b)

subsection 15(4)(e); and

(c)

sections 1, 2, 21 and 22, which came into force on 10 September 2013, when the Act received Royal Assent.