Human Tissue Act 1961

Human Tissue Act 1961

A UK Parliamentary Act which made provision with respect to the use of parts of bodies of deceased persons for therapeutic purposes and purposes of medical education and research, and with respect to the circumstances in which post-mortem examinations could be carried out, and permitted the cremation of bodies removed for anatomic examination. The Act was repealed and revoked, and its relevant provisions pulled forward into the Human Tissue Act 2004.