LegalizeThe Anatomy (Specified Persons and Museums for Public Display) (Scotland) Order 2006
Made: 7th June 2006
Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 9th June 2006
Coming into force: 1st September 2006
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6A(2) of the Anatomy Act 1984[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Citation and commencement.
1
This Order may be cited as the Anatomy (Specified Persons and Museums for Public Display) (Scotland) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st September 2006.
Specified persons and museums
2
The persons specified in column 1 of the Schedule, being persons responsible for the operation or control of the museums specified in the opposite entry in column 2 of the Schedule, are specified for the purposes of section 6A(2) of the Anatomy Act 1984.
SCHEDULE — Specified Persons and Specified Museums
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| Specified persons responsible for the operation or control of museums | Specified Museums |
| Board of Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland | National Museums of Scotland |
| City of Glasgow Council | City of Glasgow Council museums |
| Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh | Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh |
| University of Aberdeen | University of Aberdeen museums |
| University of Dundee | University of Dundee museums |
| University of Dundee and Tayside Health Board | Medical History Museum |
| University of Edinburgh | University of Edinburgh museums |
| University of Glasgow | University of Glasgow museums |
| University of St. Andrews | University of St. Andrews museums |
Signed
LEWIS MACDONALD — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 7th June 2006
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the Order
This Order specifies persons responsible for the operation or control of specified museums for the purposes of section 6A(2) of the Anatomy Act 1984 (“the Act”). This Order comes into force on 1st September 2006.
Section 6A(1) of the Act prohibits a person from publicly displaying an anatomical specimen, a body or part of a body which has been used for anatomical examination, or a body or part of a body which has been used outwith Scotland for anatomical examination or examination which has the characteristics of anatomical examination. Section 6A(3) to (8) of the Act provide for certain circumstances where that prohibition is disapplied. Those circumstances include a requirement that the display be authorised by a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers under section 6A(9) of the Act.
The persons specified in article 2 and the Schedule, responsible for the operation or control of the museums specified there, are not required to have such a public display authorised by a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers under section 6A(9) of the Act.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1984 c. 14. Section 6A was inserted by the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 4), section 53(9).
Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.
This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.