Clause 7 - Existing holdings
Human Tissue Bill
4:15 pm
Dr Richard Taylor (Wyre Forest, Independent)
I beg to move amendment No. 55, in
clause 7, page 7, line 12, at end add
'or that has been used for a purpose specified in Schedule 1'.
I have to declare a personal interest. My local newspaper has written reports saying that many Members have imaginary skeletons in their cupboards. I have a real one, as many doctors of my vintage do. I am concerned that, as the Bill is written, I am not lawfully allowed to have that. I cannot, as the hon. Member for Westbury did some years ago, dispose of mine because that is not covered either. So, the purpose of the words that I seek to add to the Bill is to try to make it legal to have possession of something that was used at one time. However, if the Under-Secretary can reassure me and many other doctors of my sort of age that I am not liable to 51 weeks in prison, or whatever the punishment is, I shall certainly seek leave to withdraw the amendment.