Society or a is in the approved for believing that the health service. form and published in blood was likely to the Government contain HIV, Gazette; and Hepatitis C or a prescribed disease (b) before supplying the (as the case may be) blood or a blood and did not take all product— reasonable steps— (i) caused a sample; (a) to find out or whether the (ii) in the case of a blood, or a blood product, product derived caused a sample from that blood, of each unit of had been given to blood from which a person; and derived— the product was (b) to ensure that any to be tested in a remaining part of manner which is the blood, or a approved by the blood product Secretary and derived from that published in the blood, is not Government Gazette given to any for the presence of person. HIV, Hepatitis C or a prescribed disease (as the case may be); and (c) obtained a negative result from that test or each of those tests. Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Person against whom action Exception to Item brought Defences defences
Society or a health service. is in the approved form and published in the Government Gazette; and (b) before supplying the blood or a blood product— (i) caused a sample; or (ii) in the case of a product, caused a sample of each unit of blood from which the product was derived— to be tested in a manner which is approved by the Secretary and published in the Government Gazette for the presence of HIV, Hepatitis C or a prescribed disease (as the case may be); and (c) obtained a negative result from that test or each of those tests. for believing that the blood was likely to contain HIV, Hepatitis C or a prescribed disease (as the case may be) and did not take all reasonable steps— (a) to find out whether the blood, or a blood product derived from that blood, had been given to a person; and (b) to ensure that any remaining part of the blood, or a blood product derived from that blood, is not given to any person. Item Column 1 Person against whom action brought Column 2 Defences Column 3 Exception to defences
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