Human Tissue Act 2004

Human Tissue Act 2004^[a]

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision with respect to activities involving human tissue; to make provision about the transfer of human remains from certain museum collections; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2004 c. 30
Territorial extent	England, Northern Ireland and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	15 November 2004
Other legislation
Relates to	Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006 Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Human Tissue Act 2004 (c. 30)^[b] is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that applied to England, Northern Ireland and Wales, which consolidated previous legislation and created the Human Tissue Authority to "regulate the removal, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue."^[1] The Act does not extend to Scotland; its counterpart there is the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006.

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