HC Deb 23 October 1979 vol 972 c219

Mr. Tam Dalyell accordingly presented a Bill to allow hospitals to take the organs, such as kidneys, of any patient, once clinical death has been established, other than those of a deceased person who has contracted out during his lifetime by registering, on a central computer, his desire not to donate organs; And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 16 November and to be printed. [Bill 54.]