(1) No authority for the removal of eyes shall be given under Section 3 of the person competent to give such authority has reason to believe that an inquest may be required to be held on the body of the deceased person in pursuance of the provisions of any law for the time being in force.
Authority for re moval of eves
(2) No authority for the removal of eyes from the body of a deceased person shall be given by a person to whom such body has been entrusted solely for the purpose of interment, cremation, burial or disposal otherwise.
Authority for re- 5. (1) In the case of a dead body lying in a hospital, prison, nursing moval of eyes in home or other like institution and not claimed by any of the near rela the case of un- tives of the deceased person, the authority for the removal of the eyes claimed bodies in from the dead body which so remaing unclaimed may be given in the certain institu- form prescribed by rules made under this Act, by the person having for tions.
the time being, the control or management of the hospital, prison, nursing home or institution.
iegistered Medi cal practitioner alone may re move eyes.
(2) The authority referred to in sub-section (1) may be given
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(i) after the expiry of half an hour from the time of death of the concerned person in cases where no facility for cold storage of the dead body is available in the hospital, prison, nursing home or other like institution:
Where a person has died by accident or unnatural death and his dead body has been sent for post mortem examination for medicolegal from bodies sent purposes, authority for removal of eyes from such dead body may be
(ii) after the expiry of two hours from the time of death of the concerned person, in cases where the facility for cold storage of the dead body is av¡ilable in the hospital, prison, nrsing home other like institution.
given by the person competent to give such authority under this Act, if he lhas itason to belleve ihat the eyes will not be required for medicolegal purposes and the deceased had not expressed any objection to his eyes being used for therapeutic purposes after his death and had not with drawn his consent, if such consent was given during his life time.
7, (1) No person other than a registered medical practitioner attached to, or employed in any approved institution, shall remove the eyes from the body of a deceased person.
(2) e Medical practitioner authorised to remove the eyes from the body of a deceased person under sub-section (1), shall, he fore such rennoval, is extinct.
satisfy himself by personal exAmination of the body thnt life After removal of the eyes from the body of a deceased person, the medical practitioner shall keep it in such receptacle for preservation, As may be prescribed, before its delivery to the Eye Bank of an institution approved by the State Government.
Erplanation,--In this section "registered medical practitioner" means a medical practitioner who pOSsesses a postgraduate qualification in Ophthalmology or who possesses a certificate showing that he has received training in enucleation proce dure in the Ophthalmology department of an institution approved or notified by the State Government.