law: Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994
  3. Authority for removal of human organs
  (1) Any donor may, in such manner and subject
  
  to such conditions as may be prescribed, authorize the removal, before his
  
  death, of any human organs of his body for therapeutic purposes.
  (2) If any donor had, in writing and in the
  
  presence of two or more witnesses (at least one of whom is a near relative of
  
  such person), unequivocally authorized at any time before his death, the
  
  removal of any human organ of his body, after his death, for therapeutic
  
  purposes, the person lawfully in possession of the dead body of the donor
  
  shall, unless he has any reason to believe that the donor had subsequently
  
  revoked the authority aforesaid, grant to a registered medical practitioner all
  
  reasonable facilities for the removal, for therapeutic purposes, of that human
  
  organ from the dead body of the donor.
  (3) Where no such authority as is referred to 
  
  in sub-section (2), was made by any person before his death but no objection was 
  
  also expressed by such person to any of his human organs being used after his 
  
  death for therapeutic purposes, the person lawfully in possession of the dead 
  
  body of such person may, unless he has reason to believe that any near relative 
  
  of the deceased person has objection to any of the deceased person's human 
  
  organs being used for therapeutic purposes, authorize the removal of any human 
  
  organ of the deceased person for its use for therapeutic purposes.
  (4) The authority given under sub-section (1)
  
  or sub-section (2) or, as the case may be, sub-section (3) shall be sufficient
  
  warrant for the removal, for therapeutic purposes, of the human organ; but no
  
  such removal shall be made by any person other than the registered medical
  
  practitioner.
  (5) Where any human organ is to be removed
  
  from the body of a deceased person, the registered medical practitioner shall
  
  satisfy himself, before such removal, by a personal examination of the body
  
  from which any human organ is to be removed, that life is extinct in such body
  
  or, where it appears to be a case of brain-stem death, that such death has been
  
  certified under sub-section (6).
  (6) Where any human organ is to be removed
  
  from the body of a person in the event of his brain-stem death, no such removal
  
  shall be undertaken unless such death is certified, in such form and in such
  
  manner and on satisfaction of such conditions and requirements as may be
  
  prescribed, by a Board of medical experts consisting of the following, namely:-
  (i) the registered medical
  
  practitioner in charge of the hospital in which brain-stem death has occurred;
  (ii) an independent
  
  registered medical practitioner, being a specialist, to be nominated by the
  
  registered medical practitioner specified in clause (i), from the panel of
  
  names approval by the Appropriate Authority;
  (iii) a neurologist or
  
  a neurosurgeon to be nominated by the registered medical practitioner specified
  
  in clause (i), from the panel of names approved by the Appropriate Authority ;
  
  and
  (iv) the registered
  
  medical practitioner treating the person whose brain-stem death has occurred .
  (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in
  
  sub-section (3), where brain-stem death of any person, less than eighteen years
  
  of age, occurs and is certified under sub-section (6) , any of the parents of
  
  the deceased person may give authority, in such form and in such manner as may
  
  be prescribed, for the removal of any human organ from the body of the deceased
  
  person.