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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 328

ANATOMY

The Anatomy (Specified Persons and Museums for Public Display) (Scotland) Order 2006

Made

7th June 2006

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

9th June 2006

Coming into force

1st September 2006

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6A(2) of the Anatomy Act 1984(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement.

1.  This Order may be cited as the Anatomy (Specified Persons and Museums for Public Display) (Scotland) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st September 2006.

Specified persons and museums

2.  The persons specified in column 1 of the Schedule, being persons responsible for the operation or control of the museums specified in the opposite entry in column 2 of the Schedule, are specified for the purposes of section 6A(2) of the Anatomy Act 1984.

LEWIS MACDONALD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

7th June 2006

Article 2

SCHEDULESpecified Persons and Specified Museums

Column 1Column 2
Specified persons responsible for the operation or control of museumsSpecified Museums
Board of Trustees of the National Museums of ScotlandNational Museums of Scotland
City of Glasgow CouncilCity of Glasgow Council museums
Royal College of Surgeons of EdinburghMuseum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
University of AberdeenUniversity of Aberdeen museums
University of DundeeUniversity of Dundee museums
University of Dundee and Tayside Health BoardMedical History Museum
University of EdinburghUniversity of Edinburgh museums
University of GlasgowUniversity of Glasgow museums
University of St. AndrewsUniversity of St. Andrews museums

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the Order

This Order specifies persons responsible for the operation or control of specified museums for the purposes of section 6A(2) of the Anatomy Act 1984 (“the Act”). This Order comes into force on 1st September 2006.

Section 6A(1) of the Act prohibits a person from publicly displaying an anatomical specimen, a body or part of a body which has been used for anatomical examination, or a body or part of a body which has been used outwith Scotland for anatomical examination or examination which has the characteristics of anatomical examination. Section 6A(3) to (8) of the Act provide for certain circumstances where that prohibition is disapplied. Those circumstances include a requirement that the display be authorised by a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers under section 6A(9) of the Act.

The persons specified in article 2 and the Schedule, responsible for the operation or control of the museums specified there, are not required to have such a public display authorised by a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers under section 6A(9) of the Act.

(1)

1984 c. 14. Section 6A was inserted by the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 4), section 53(9).