6Authority for removal of human organs or tissues or both from bodies sent for post-mortem examination for medico-legal or pathological purposes

6. Authority for removal of ¹[human organs or tissues or both] from bodies sent for post-mortem examination for medico-legal or pathological purposes.-- Where the body of a person has been sent for post-mortem examination--

(a) for medico-legal purposes by reason of the death of such person having been caused by accident or any other unnatural cause; or

(b) for pathological purposes,

the person competent under this Act to give authority for the removal of any ²[human organ or tissue or both] from such dead body may, if he has reason to believe that such ²[human organ or tissue or both] 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 that ²[human organ or tissue or both] of the deceased person provided that he is satisfied that the deceased person had not expressed, before his death, any objection to any of his ³[human organs or tissues or both] being used, for therapeutic purposes after his death or, where he had granted an authority for the use of any of his ³[human organs or tissues or both] for therapeutic purposes, after his death, such authority had not been revoked by him before his death.