The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe matters that are authorised or required to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Human Tissue Act 1982.
2 Authorising provision
These Regulations are made under section 46 of the Human Tissue Act 1982.
3 Commencement
These Regulations come into operation on 21 December 2025.
For the purposes of section 25(b) of the Act, the following classes of persons are prescribed—
(a) in relation to the removal of ocular tissue, a person—
(i) who is employed by, or performs work for, the Centre for Eye Research Australia Limited (ACN 076 481 984) as an eye donor coordinator as part of the Lions Eye Donation Service; and
(ii) whose duties include the removal of ocular tissue from the bodies of deceased persons;
(b) in relation to the removal of tissue of any kind, a person—
(i) who is employed by, or performs work for, the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine or a hospital as a forensic technician (including a forensic technical officer), a mortuary technician or a scientist; and
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(ii) whose duties include the removal of tissue of any kind from the bodies of deceased persons.
7 Prescribed institutions
For the purposes of Part VII of the Act, the following institutions are prescribed—
(a) La Trobe University;
(b) Monash University;
(c) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology;
(d) University of Melbourne.
8 Prescribed tissue banks
For the purposes of section 39A(1) of the Act, the following tissue banks are prescribed—
(a) Austin Health Tissue Bank;
(b) Barwon Health Bone Bank;
(c) Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria;
(d) kConFab (Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer) Tissue Bank;
(e) Lions Eye Donation Service;
(f) Melbourne Health Tissue Bank;
(g) Monash Health Tissue Bank;
(h) Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Tissue Bank;
(i) Victorian Brain Bank.
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Endnotes
1 General information
See www.legislation.vic.gov.au for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.
The Human Tissue Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 139/2025 were made on 9 December 2025 by the Governor in Council under section 46 of the Human Tissue Act 1982, No. 9860/1982 and came into operation on 21 December 2025: regulation 3.
The Human Tissue Regulations 2025 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 9 December 2035 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).
INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)
Style changes
Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.
References to ILA s. 39B
Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.
Interpretation
As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:
• Headings
All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms.
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).
• Examples, diagrams or notes
All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule. See section 36(3A).
• Punctuation
All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule. Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).
• Provision numbers
All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001. Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).
• Location of "legislative items"
A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.
• Other material
Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule. See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).
2 Table of Amendments
There are no amendments made to the Human Tissue Regulations 2025 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.