Section 52 National Health Act
Section 52 National Health Act 2014 is about Removal, use or transplantation of tissue and administering of blood and blood products by Medical Practitioner or Dentist. It is under Part VI (Control of Use of Blood, Blood Products, Tissue and Gametes in Humans) of the Act.
(1) Only a registered medical practitioner or dentist may remove any tissue from a living person, use tissue so removed for any of the purposes stated in this Act or transplant tissue so removed into another living person.
(2) Only a registered medical practitioner or dentist, or a person acting under the supervision or on the instructions of a medical practitioner or dentist, may administer blood or a blood product to, or prescribe blood or a blood product for, a living person.
