ANATOMY ACT

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ANATOMY ACT

CHAPTER A16 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.     Short title.

2.     Minister of Health may grant licences to practise anatomy.

3.     Executors or other persons having lawful custody of bodies may permit them to undergo anatomical examination.

4.     Provision in case of persons directing anatomical examination after their death.

5.     Body not to be removed without a certificate.

6.     Superintendent of school of anatomy may receive bodies for anatomical examination.

7.     Superintendent of school of anatomy to receive with body a certificate as aforesaid and keep record of particulars of deceased.

8.     How bodies are to be removed for examination.

9.     Persons not to be liable for prosecution for having in their possession human bodies.

10. Act not to extend or prohibit post-mortem examination directed by competent authority.
11. Penalty for contravention of this Act.
12. Power to make regulations prescribing forms.

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ANATOMY ACT

An Act to regulate Schools of Anatomy.

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[Commencement.]                                  [30th March, 1933]

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1.      Short title

This Act may be cited as the Anatomy Act.

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