AI-assisted research summary: The Director-General may appoint, in writing, any medical practitioner to be a hospital’s designated officer under this Act.
Human Organ Transplant Act 1987 2020 REVISED EDITION This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021 An Act to make provision for the removal of organs for transplantation, for the prohibition of trading in organs and blood, and for purposes connected therewith. [16 July 1987] PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title 1. This Act is the Human Organ Transplant Act 1987. Interpretation 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — “designated officer”, in relation to a hospital, means a person appointed under section 3 to be the designated officer of the hospital; [Deleted by Act 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023] “Director‑General” means the Director‑General of Health; [Act 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023] “hospital” means a hospital which is declared by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a hospital for the purposes of this Act or any part of the Act; “licensee”, in relation to a hospital, means a person who is — (a) authorised to provide an acute hospital service or ambulatory surgical centre service (called in this definition a relevant healthcare service) under a licence granted under the Healthcare Services Act 2020; and (b) approved to provide the relevant healthcare service at the hospital which is an approved permanent premises (within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Healthcare Services Act 2020); [Act 19 of 2025 wef 05/12/2025] “living donor organ transplant” means the removal of a specified organ from the body of any living person for the purpose of its transplantation into the body of another living person; “medical practitioner” means a person who is registered, or deemed to be registered, as a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Act 1997; “organ” means — (a) except as provided in paragraph (b), any organ of a human body specified in the First Schedule; and (b) for the purposes of Parts 4 and 4A, any organ of a human body; “specified organ” means any organ of a human body specified in the Second Schedule; “transplant ethics committee”, in relation to a hospital, means a committee of the hospital appointed under section 16(1). [*Updated to be consistent with the 2020 Revised Edition] Designated officers 3. The Director‑General may appoint, in writing, any medical practitioner to be the designated officer of a hospital for the purposes of this Act. [4 [Act 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023]