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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-kingdom-transplant-support-service-authority-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-kingdom-transplant-support-service-authority-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/408",
  "legislation_title": "The United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/united-kingdom-transplant-support-service-authority-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Functions of the Authority",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) of this regulation and in accordance with such directions as the Secretary of State may give under the Act, the Authority shall exercise on his behalf the Secretary of State’s functions under the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations (the subject matter of the relevant function being indicated in column 2 of that Schedule) so far as they relate to assisting in, and facilitating or promoting, the provision of a service for the transplantation of organs.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) of this regulation, the functions mentioned in that paragraph include the functions of—\n(a) acquiring, recording, updating, keeping and making available information about donors and recipients and organs which are or may be available for transportation and other related matters;\n(b) identifying persons who are potentially suitable recipients for organs, and notifying transplant centres of the availability or potential availability of organs;\n(c) giving advice about, or making arrangements for, the transport of organs for transplantation;\n(d) generally facilitating the standardisation of practices in respect of storage, transport and transplantation of organs;\n(e) providing an organ matching and tissue-typing service;\n(f) supplying standardised reagents and sera to transplant centres and laboratories;\n(g) providing education and training for persons involved or to be involved with the transplantation of organs, including identifying the need for such education or training.\n(3) The powers of the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Act shall be exercisable by the Authority only to such extent as may be necessary for the proper exercise of one or more other functions which the Secretary of State has directed the Authority to exercise on his behalf.\n(4) Nothing in these Regulations is to be taken as giving directions for the exercise of any functions conferred on or vested in the Secretary of State with respect to the making of any Order or Regulations.\n(5) In exercising the functions of the Secretary of State under section 25 of the Act, such charges shall be made with respect to the supplies of human blood as are determined by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1645",
      "affecting_title": "The Human Organ Transplants and the United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/408/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:50:24.253449+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."
}