(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations prescribe, for the purposes of section 18(1) of the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006 (“the Act”), the form of certificate to be issued by the Scottish Ministers in accordance with section 18(2) of the Act that they are of the opinion that the adult is incapable in relation to a decision about the removal from the adult of regenerative tissue for transplantation (regulation 2 and the Schedule). The certificate may subsist for a period of up to 1 year.