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CCQ-1991 - Civil Code of Québec

Section 44
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44. A part of the body of a deceased person may be removed, if the wishes of the deceased are not known or cannot be presumed, with the consent of the person who was or would have been qualified to give consent to care.
Consent is not required where two physicians attest in writing to the impossibility of obtaining it in due time, the urgency of the operation and the serious hope of saving a human life or of improving its quality to an appreciable degree.
1991, c. 64, a. 44; I.N. 2014-05-01.
44. A part of the body of a deceased person may be removed in the absence of knowledge or presumed knowledge of the wishes of the deceased, with the consent of the person who could give consent to care or could have given it.
Consent is not required where two physicians attest in writing to the impossibility of obtaining it in due time, the urgency of the operation and the serious hope of saving a human life or of improving its quality to an appreciable degree.
1991, c. 64, a. 44.
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