The Human Tissue Act 2004 (c. 30)[b] is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that applied to England, Northern Ireland and Wales, which consolidated previous legislation and created the Human Tissue Authority to "regulate the removal, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue.

The Act allows for anonymous organ donation (previously, living people could only donate organs to those to whom they had a genetic or emotional connection),[2] and requires licences for those intending to publicly display human remains, such as BODIES...

[3] The Act also specifies that in cases of organ donation after death the wishes of the deceased takes precedence over the wishes of relatives,[4] but a parliamentary report concluded in 2006 that the Act likely would fail in this regard since most surgeons would be unwilling to confront families in such situations.

In 2007 a man became the first person convicted under the Act for trying to sell his kidney online for £24,000 in order to pay off his gambling debts.

[6] The following orders have been made under this section: There is no official report on the number of restitutions that have been permitted under the Human Tissue Act 2004.