16 Consequential and incidental amendments to the Human Tissue Act 2004

16  Consequential and incidental amendments to the Human Tissue Act 2004

(1)     The Human Tissue Act 2004 is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 1 (authorisation of activities for scheduled purposes)—

(a)     after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A)     Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to consent for transplantation activities done in Wales.”;

(b)     after subsection (13) insert—

“(14)     In this section “transplantation activities” has the same meaning as in the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013 (which makes provision in relation to consent for transplantation activities done in Wales).”

(3)     In section 6 (activities involving material from adults who lack capacity to consent)—

(a)     the existing text becomes subsection (1), and

(b)     after subsection (1) add—

“(2)

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