Uttar Pradesh Anatomy Act, 1956
[U.P . Act 6 of 1957] [29th August, 1956]

CONTENTS

1. Short title, extent and commencement

2. Definitions

An Act to provide for the supply of unclaimed dead bodies of deceased persons to teaching medical institutions for the purpose of anatomical examination and dissection

Whereas it is expedient to provide for supply of unclaimed dead bodies of deceased persons to teaching medical institutions for the purpose of anatomical examination and dissection;

It is hereby enacted in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:

## Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh Anatomy Act, 1956.

(2) It extends to the whole of Uttar Pradesh.

(3) This section shall come into force at once and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come in to force on such date and in such area as the State Government may by notification in the official Gazette specify in that behalf.

## Section 2. Definitions.—(1) In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context—

(a) “authorized officer” means an officer authorized to act under Section 5;

(b) “medical institution” means a hospital or a medical or teaching institution established, maintained or recognized as such by notification in the official Gazette, by the State Government to carryon anatomical examination or dissection, or both;

 

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers such rules may provide—
(a) the period within which a relative may claim the dead body of a deceased person; (b) the period after which the dead body of a deceased person shall be-deemed to be unclaimed; 
(c) the procedure for the disposal of an unclaimed dead body under Section 5; 
(d) the conditions under which institutions may be recognized for the purposes of sub-sections (1) and (2) of Section 5; 
(e) the manner in which an unclaimed dead body be preserved from decay; 
(f) the procedure of proceedings under Section 6; and 
(g) the matters which are to be and may be prescribed.

(3) (a) all rules made under this Act shall be published in the official Gazette, and shall, unless some other date is appointed, come into force on the date of such publication. (b) all rules made under this Act shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before the Legislature for 14 days and shall be subject to such modifications as the Legislature may make therein.

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1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see U.P. Gazette Extraordinary, dated August 29, 1956.

Passed in Hindi by the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1956 and by the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council on December 21, 1956.

Received the Assent of the Governor on January 14, 1957, under Article 200 of the Constitution of India and was published in the Uttar Pradesh Gazette Extraordinary, dated January 19, 1957.

Published in the Uttar Pradesh Gazette Extraordinary, dated January 19, 1957

[Authoritative English text of the Uttar Pradesh Shorir Rachna Rarikshan Adhiniyam, 1956]