THE KERALA CORNEAL GRAFTING (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1988 ^[1]

(ACT 21 OF 1988)

An Act to amend the Kerala Corneal Grafting Act, 1963

Preamble. — whereas it is expedient to amend the Kerala Corneal Grafting Act, 1963, for the purpose hereinafter appearing;

be it enacted in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —

1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Kerala Corneal Grafting (Amendment) Act, 1988.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2. Amendment of section 3. —In the Kerala Corneal Grafting Act, 1963 (17 of 1963), in section 3, after sub-section (6), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely: —

"(6A) Where the body of a person has been sent for post-mortem examination—

(a ) for medico-legal purposes by reason of the death of such person having been caused by accident or any other unnatural cause; or

(b ) for pathological purposes,

the person competent under this Act to give authority for the removal of the eyes from such dead body may, if he has reason to believe that the eyes will not be required for the purpose for which such body has been sent for post-mortem examination, authorise the removal for therapeutic purposes, of the eyes of such deceased person provided that he is satisfied that the deceased person had not expressed, before his death, any objection to his eyes being used for therapeutic purposes after his death or, where he had granted an authority for the use of his eyes for therapeutic purposes after his death, such authority had not been revoked by him before his death''.