{
    "id": 16947,
    "slug": "haryana-corneal-grafting-act-1974",
    "title": "Haryana Corneal Grafting Act, 1974",
    "short_title": "Haryana Corneal Grafting Act, 1974",
    "act_number": "Haryana Act No. 25 of 1974",
    "act_year": 1974,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Haryana",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Haryana Corneal Grafting Act, 1974",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and extent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Object & Reasons 6\nStatement of objects and Reasons.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"approved institution\" means a hospital or a medical or teaching institution for therapeutic purposes approved by the State Government for the purposes of this Act;\n(b) \"near relative\" means any of the following relatives of the deceased, namely, a wife, husband parent, son, daughter, brother and sister, and includes any other person who is related to the deceased -\n(i) by lineal or collateral consanguinity within three degrees in lineal relationship and six-degrees in collateral relationship ; or\n(ii) by marriage either with the deceased or with any relative specifically mentioned in this clause or with any other relative within the aforesaid degrees.\n[(c) \"registered medical practitioner (ophthalmic)\" means a medical practitioner who possesses a recognised medical qualification, included in the First and Third Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, and possesses a post-graduate qualification in ophthalmology or a certificate showing that he has received training in nucleation procedure in the ophthalmic department of a hospital or a teaching institution for therapeutic purposes approved by the State Government in this behalf and who is enrolled on a State Medical Register as defined in clause (k) of section 2 of the said Act.] .",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Removal of eyes of deceased person.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the deceased had expressed an objection to his eyes being so dealt with after his death and had not withdrawn such objection ; or\n(b) that a near relative of the deceased objects to the deceased's eyes being so dealt with.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Authority when not to be given.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. No authority for removal of eyes when body is entrusted to person by another only for cremation, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Authority for removal of eyes in case of unclaimed bodies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) half an-hour from the time of death of the concerned person in cases where no facility for cold storage of the dead body is available in the approved institution or prison ; or\n(ii) two hours from the time of death of the concerned person in cases where facility for cold storage of the dead body is available in the approved institution or prison.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "6A",
            "title": "6A. Authority for removal of eyes from bodies sent for post-mortem.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) for medico-legal purposes by reason of the death of such person having been caused by accident or any other unnatural cause ; or\n(b) for pathological purposes, the person competent under this Act to give authority for the removal of the eyes from such dead body may, if he has reason to believe that the eyes will not be required for the purpose for which such body has been sent for post mortem examination, authorise the removal for therapeutic purposes. of the eyes of such deceased person ; provided that he is satisfied that the deceased person had not expressed, before his death, any objection to his eyes being used for therapeutic purposes after his death or, there he had granted an authority for the use of his eyes for therapeutic purposes after his death such authority had not been revoked by him before his death.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "6B",
            "title": "6B. Preservation of eyes removed from dead bodies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Saving.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[7A. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Repeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[9. Power to make rules.\n(a) the form of authority under Section 6 ;\n(b) manner of preservation of removed eyes, under section 6-B ;\n(c) any other matter which is required to be or may be prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "hl101",
        "Act Number": "Haryana Act No. 25 of 1974",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1974",
        "Short Title": "Haryana Corneal Grafting Act, 1974",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Haryana"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}