ACT No. VIII of 2026 AN ACT to amend the Human Organs, Tissues and Cell Donation Act, Cap. 558.

I assent.

MYRIAM SPITERI DEBONO

President

27th March, 2026

ACT No. VIII of 2026

AN ACT to amend the Human Organs, Tissues and Cell Donation

Act, Cap. 558.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent to the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

The short title of this Act is the Human Organs, Tissues and Short title.

Cell Donation (Amendment) Act, 2026 and this Act shall be read and

construed as one with the Human Organs, Tissues and Cell Donation Cap. 558.

Act, hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act".

Article 12 of the principal Act shall be substituted by the Substitution of

following new article

(1) Deceased organ, tissue and cell donation

human organs,

shall be considered in persons who are certified dead

using neurological or circulatory criteria by a clinician.

(2) The Superintendent shall maintain updated and

peer reviewed guidelines, which shall be published on the

Ministry’s website, for the diagnosis of death using

neurological and circulatory criteria for the purposes of

organ, tissue and cell donation.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 450 of the

25th March, 2026.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

ELEANOR SCERRI

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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