AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Transplantation and Anatomy Amendment Act 2000
No 45 of 2000
	
An Act to amend the Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1978
[Notified in ACT Gazette No. 39: 28 September 2000]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1 	Name of Act
	This Act is the Transplantation and Anatomy Amendment Act 2000.
2 	Commencement
	This Act commences on the day it is notified in the Gazette.
3 	Act amended
	This Act amends the Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1978.
4 	Consents by adults to removal of blood
	Section 20 is amended—
	(a)	by omitting the heading and substituting the following heading:
“20 	Consents by persons 16 years old or older to removal of blood”; and
	(b)	by inserting “under 16 years old” after “child”.
5 	Consents to removal of blood from children
	Section 21 is amended—
	(a)	by omitting the heading and substituting the following heading:
“21 	Consents to removal of blood from children under 16 years old”; and
	(b)	by inserting “under 16 years old” after “a child”.
	
Endnote
Act amended
1	Republished as in force on 31 March 1999.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 11 May 2000]

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