Clause 29 - Prohibition of commercial dealings in human material
Human Tissue Bill
4:30 pm
Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon, Liberal Democrat)
The purpose of this group of amendments is to probe the extent to which the offences in the clause would be offences geographically that existed in the Human Organ Transplants Act 1989. I accept that that may not be right, but it is what I understand to be the case. Without the amendments, the prohibition would seem to be restricted to the area of the United Kingdom to which the clause applies—England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Amendment No. 116 makes it clear that the person commits the offence in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, but amendments Nos. 117 to 122 add to various parts of the clause the words
''whether in England, Wales or Northern Ireland or elsewhere''.