ACT No. XXXIX of 2024 AN ACT to amend the Health Act, Cap. 528.

I assent.

(L.S.)

MYRIAM SPITERI DEBONO

President

17th December, 2024

ACT No. XXXIX of 2024

AN ACT to amend the Health Act, Cap. 528.

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

consent of 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 Health (Amendment) Act, Short title.

2024 and this Act shall be read and construed as one with the Health

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

Cap. 528 .

In the Arrangement of Act, immediately after the words "Part Amendment of

Arrangement of

V" there shall be added the words

Act.

"Part V A

Department operating Blood,

15A - 15B".

Tissue and Cells Centre

Immediately after article 15 of the principal Act there shall be Addition of new

Part to the

added the following new Part

principal Act.

"PART V A

Department operating Blood, Tissue and Cells Centre

(1) There shall be established a Department

operating Blood, Tissue and Cells Centre, hereinafter

referred to as the Department, whose objective shall be to

provide a safe and sustainable blood supply and a service

for tissue and cells in compliance with all relevant

standards, whilst respecting the donor’s voluntary gift for

the benefit of eligible patients.

(2) The Head of the Department shall be a Director

General.

The Department shall in general exercise such

functions and fulfil all the duties and responsibilities

provided for in the law, and in particular, perform such

functions and duties which the Minister may, from time to

time, prescribe by means of regulations.".

4. In paragraph (c) of Schedule A to the principal Act the word

"three" shall be substituted by the words "four (4)".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 295 of the

11th December, 2024.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

ELEANOR SCERRI

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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