Commentary on Sections Transplants Section 33: Restriction on transplants involving a live donorSection 34: Information about transplant operations
49.These sections are transposed from the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989. Section 33 sets out the offence and penalties related to the removal and transplantation of organs and other material from living donors in circumstances other than those provided for in regulations made under this section. These include circumstances where the HTA is satisfied that no reward has been given in relation to the transplant. Section 34 replicates the existing requirement for information about organ transplants to be supplied to the specified authority (UK Transplant). Failure to supply information, or the supply of false information, is an offence under this section.