Petition PE406, from Margaret Doig, calls on the Parliament to redress the omissions in the current law and code of practice governing post mortems. Post mortems that are carried out when death has occurred in suspicious circumstances are a matter for the justice committees, rather than for the Health and Community Care Committee. I suggest that we take no action on the matter. I invite the committee to decide whether to take no further action or to continue the matter until information from the Executive becomes available. The petition is bound up with the legislation on organ retention.
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Organ Retention (PE406)
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6 contributionsWe should take the same action on petition PE406 as we took on petitions PE283 and PE370.
We will write to the Executive to find out when it plans to introduce legislation on organ retention.
I will inform the Public Petitions Committee of the convener's view that the justice committees should deal with the other aspects of the petition.
That completes consideration of business in public.
Meeting continued in private until 10:46.
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