Clause 4 - Nominated representatives
Human Tissue Bill
4:00 pm
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Under-Secretary, not least for agreeing to think about this matter. It seems rather a burdensome and unlikely proposition that people will specify their own structure of qualifying relationships prior to death, and more likely that they might specify who was not in a qualifying relationship with them. It is rather like constructing a will—the difficulty being that one does this on the basis of a range of hypothetical circumstances that might accrue before the point of one's death. In practice, it is probably simpler to exclude somebody from a qualifying relationship than to anticipate all the circumstances that might arise before death. If the Under-Secretary is willing to think about it, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Clause 4 ordered to stand part of the Bill.