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ANATOMY ACT 1832

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - LONG TITLE

An Act for regulating Schools in Anatomy.{1}
[1st August 1832]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1890 (No. 2)[

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 1
Secretary for Ireland to grant licences to practise anatomy.

1.] It shall be lawful ... for the chief secretary for Ireland in
Ireland, to grant a licence to practise anatomy to any fellow or
member of any college of physicians or surgeons, or to any graduate
or licentiate in medicine, or to any person lawfully qualified to
practise medicine in any part of the United Kingdom, or to any
professor or teacher of anatomy, medicine, or surgery, or to any
student attending any school of anatomy, on application from such
party for such purpose, countersigned by two of His Majesty's
justices of the peace acting for the county, city, borough, or
place wherein such party resides, certifying that, to their knowledge
or belief, such party so applying is about to carry on the
practice of anatomy.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 2
Inspectors of schools of anatomy to be appointed.

2. It shall be lawful for His Majesty's said ... chief secretary
... to appoint respectively not fewer than three persons to be
inspectors of places where anatomy is carried on, and at any time
after such first appointment to appoint, if they shall see fit, one
or more other person or persons to be an inspector or inspectors
as aforesaid; and every such inspector shall continue in office for
one year, or until he be removed by the said ... chief secretary,
... or until some other person shall be appointed in his place;
and as often as any inspector appointed as aforesaid shall die, or
shall be removed from his said office, or shall refuse or become
unable to act, it shall be lawful for the said ... chief
secretary, ... to appoint another person to be inspector in his
room.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 3
Inspectors to have districts appointed, and their duties to be
regulated.

3. It shall be lawful for the said ... chief secretary ... to
direct what district of town or country, or of both, and what
places where anatomy is carried on, situate within such district,
every such inspector shall be appointed to superintend, and in what
manner every such inspector shall transact the duties of his office.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 4
Inspectors to make quarterly returns of subjects removed for
anatomical examinaton;

4. Every inspector to be appointed by virtue of this Act shall
make a quarterly return to the said ... chief secretary ... of
every deceased persons's body that during the preceding quarter has
been removed for anatomical examination to every separate place in
his district where anatomy is carried on, distinguishing the sex,
and, as far as is known at the time, the name and age of each
person whose body was so removed as aforesaid.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 5
and to inspect places where anatomy is practised.

5. It shall be lawful for every such inspector to visit and
inspect at any time any place within his district, notice of which
place has been given, as is herein-after directed, that it is
intended there to practise anatomy.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 6
Salaries to inspectors.

6. It shall be lawful for His Majesty to grant to every such
inspector such an annual salary not exceeding one hundred pounds for
his trouble, and to allow such a sum of money for the expenses of
his office as may appear reasonable, such salaries and allowances to
be charged on the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom, and to
be payable quarterly; ....

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 7
Persons having lawful custody of bodies may permit them to undergo
anatomical examination in certain cases.

7. It shall be lawful for any executor or other party having
lawful possession of the body of any deceased person, and not being
an undertaker or other party intrusted with the body for the
purpose only of interment, to permit the body of such deceased
person to undergo anatomical examination, unless, to the knowledge of
such executor or other party, such person shall have expressed his
desire, either in writing at any time during his life, or verbally
in the presence of two or more witnesses during the illness whereof
he died, that his body after death might not undergo such
examination, or unless the surviving husband or wife, or any known
relative of the deceased person, shall require the body to be
interred without such examination.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 8
Provision in case of persons directing anatomical examinations after
their death.

8. If any person, either in writing at any time during his life,
or verbally in the presence of two or more witnesses during the
illness whereof he died, shall direct that his body after death be
examined anatomically, or shall nominate any party by this Act
authorized to examine bodies anatomically to make such examination,
and if, before the burial of the body of such person, such
direction or nomination shall be made known to the party having
lawful possession of the dead body, then such last-mentioned party
shall direct such examination to be made, and in case of any such
nomination as aforesaid, shall request and permit any party so
authorized and nominated as aforesaid to make such examination,
unless the deceased person's surviving husband or wife, or nearest
known relative, or any one or more of such person's nearest known
relatives, being of kin in the same degree shall require the body
to be interred without such examination.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 9
Body not to be removed from the place of death for forty-eight
hours, nor without notice to district inspector, or to some surgeon,
nor without a certificate of cause of death.

9. Provided always, that in no case shall the body of any person
be removed for anatomical examination from any place where such
person may have died until after forty-eight hours from the time of
such person's decease, nor until after twenty-four hours notice, to
be reckoned from the time of such decease, to the inspector of the
district, of the intended removal of the body, or if no such
inspector have been appointed, to some physician, surgeon, or
apothecary residing at or near the place of death, nor unless a
certificate stating in what manner such person came by his death
shall previously to the removal of the body have been signed by
the physician, surgeon, or apothecary who attended such person during
the illness whereof he died, or if no such medical man attended
such person during such illness, then by some physician, surgeon, or
apothecary who shall be called in after the death of such person
to view his body, and who shall state the manner or cause of
death according to the best of his knowledge and belief, but who
shall not be concerned in examining the body after removal; and
that in case of such removal such certificate shall be delivered,
together with the body, to the party receiving the same for
anatomical examination.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 10
Licensed professors, surgeons, and others may receive bodies for
anatomical examination.

10. It shall be lawful for any member or fellow of any college of
physicians or surgeons, or any graduate or licentiate in medicine,
or any person lawfully qualified to practise medicine in any part
of the United Kingdom, or any professor, teacher, or student of
anatomy, medicine, or surgery, having a licence from His Majesty's
... chief secretary as aforesaid, to receive or possess for
anatomical examination, or to examine anatomically, the body of any
person deceased, if permitted or directed so to do by a party who,
at the time of giving such permission or direction lawful possession
of the body, and who had power, in pursuance of the provisions of
this Act, to permit or cause the body to be so examined, and
provided such certificate as aforesaid were delivered by such party
together with the body.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 11
Such persons to receive with the body a certificate as aforesaid,
which shall be transmitted with a return to the inspector.

11. Every party so receiving a body for anatomical examination after
removal shall demand and receive, together with the body, a
certificate as aforesaid, and shall, within twenty-four hours next
after such removal, transmit to the inspector of the district such
certificate, and also a return stating at what day and hour and
from whom the body was received, the date and place of death, the
sex, and (as far as is known at the time) the christian and
surname, age, and last place of abode of such person or, if no
such inspector have been appointed, to some physician, surgeon, or
apothecary residing at or near the place to which the body is
removed, and shall enter or cause to be entered the aforesaid
particulars relating thereto, and a copy of the certificate he
received therewith, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose,
and shall produce such book whenever required so to do by any
inspector so appointed as aforesaid.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 12
Notice to be given of places where anatomy is about to be
practised.

12. It shall not be lawful for any party to carry on or teach
anatomy at any place, or at any place to receive or possess for
anatomical examination, or examine anatomically, any deceased person's
body after removal of the same, unless such party, or the owner or
occupier of such place, or some party by this Act authorized to
examine bodies anatomically, shall, at least one week before the
first receipt or possession of a body for such purpose at such
place, have given notice to the said ... chief secretary, ... of
the place where it is intended to practise anatomy.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 13
How bodies are to be removed for examination.

13. Provided always, that every such body so removed as aforesaid
for the purpose of examination shall, before such removal, be placed
in a decent coffin, or shell, and be removed therein; and that the
party removing the same, or causing the same to be removed as
aforesaid, shall make provision that such body, after undergoing
anatomical examination, be decently interred in consecrated ground, or
in some public burial ground in use for persons of that religious
persuasion to which the person whose body was so removed belonged;
and that a certificate of the interment of such body shall be
transmitted to the inspector of the district within six weeks after
the day on which such body was received as aforesaid.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 14
Licensed persons not to be liable to punishment for having in their
possession human bodies.

14. No member or fellow of any college of physicians or surgeons,
nor any graduate or licentiate in medicine, nor any person lawfully
qualified to practise medicine in any part of the United Kingdom,
nor any professor, teacher, or student of anatomy, medicine, or
surgery, having a licence from His Majesty's ... chief secretary as
aforesaid, shall be liable to any prosecution, penalty, forfeiture,
or punishment for receiving or having in his possession for
anatomical examination, or for examining anatomically, any dead human
body, according to the provisions of this Act.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 15
Act not to prohibit post-mortem examination directed by authority.

15. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to
or to prohibit any post-mortem examination of any human body
required or directed to be made by any competent legal authority.

S.16. rep. by SLR 1891. S.17 rep. by 1893 c.61 s.2 sch.

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 18
Punishment for offences against this Act.

18. Any person offending against the provisions of this Act, in ...
Ireland shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and being duly convicted thereof shall be punished by imprisonment
for a term not exceeding three months, or by a fine not exceeding
fifty pounds, at the discretion of the court before which he shall
be tried ...

ANATOMY ACT 1832 - SECT 19
Interpretation of certain words in this Act.

19.In this Act, the words "person and party" shall be respectively
deemed to include any number of persons, or any society, whether by
charter or otherwise; and the meaning of the aforesaid words shall
not be restricted although the same may be subsequently referred to
in the singular number and masculine gender only.

Ss.20, 21 rep. by SLR 1874






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