New UK legislation that aims to stop British people from participating in forced organ harvesting in China has passed unopposed in Parliament. The amendment to the UK’s new Health and Care Bill—if becomes law—will criminalise any British resident who pays for the supply of an organ, seeks to find someone willing to supply an organ for payment, or initiates or negotiates any such commercial arrangement outside of the UK, Health minister Edward Argar said. The proposed legislation applies to residents in Britain and UK nationals that are not residents of Northern Ireland. The amendment states that UK nationals include British citizens, British overseas territories citizens, British Nationals (Overseas) or British Overseas citizens, British subjects under the British Nationality Act 1981, or British protected persons within the meaning of that Act. Moving the amendment in the House of Commons, Argar said that the measure, coupled with the Conservative government’s “commitment to work with NHS Blood …
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