Maharashtra Anatomy Act
- Act number
- 11 of 1949
- Enacted
- 22 April 1949
- Contents
- 19 sections
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Contents
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 3 – Deleted
- Section 4 – Power of State Government to authorize officers to act under section 5
- Section 5 – Unclaimed dead bodies to be used for therapeutic purpose or anatomical examination
- Section 5A – Doubt or dispute whether person claiming body is near relative to be referred to transport of Executive Magistrate and body to be preserved pending decision (preview)
- Section 5B – Donation of dead bodies or any part thereof of deceased person to be used for therapeutic and certain other purposes (preview)
- Section 5C – No authority for removal of body or part thereof when body is entrusted to another only for interment or cremation (preview)
- Section 5D – Authority to remove body, etc., when body is lying in approved institution (preview)
- Section 5E – Approved Institutions to receive with body, certificate of death, etc (preview)
- Section 5F – Notice of place where body will be dealt with for all or any of the purposes of this Act (preview)
- Section 6 – Penalty (preview)
- Section 7 – Duty of police and other officers to assist (preview)
- Section 8 – Protection of persons acting under the Act (preview)
- Section 9 – Officers to be public servants (preview)
- Section 10 – Rules (preview)
- Section 10A – Act not to prohibit post-mortem examination (preview)
- Section 10B – Saving (preview)
- Section 11 – Repeal and saving (preview)