P ART 2 15 D UTIES OF THE S COTTISH M INISTERS 2 Information and awareness about authorisation of transplantation and about pre- death procedures (1) In section 1 of the 2006 Act, at the end of paragraph (c), insert “; (d) promote information and awareness about how transplantation may be 20 authorised (including, in particular, how authorisation of transplantation may be deemed to be given); (e) promote information and awareness about the nature of pre-death procedures, when they may be carried out and how they may be authorised”. 25 (2) The text of section 1 so amended becomes subsection (1). 2 Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Duties of the Scottish Ministers (3) After subsection (1) so formed, insert— “(2) The duty in subsection (1) includes in particular an obligation on the Scottish Ministers, at least once in every calendar year, to promote a campaign of awareness and information for the purpose of informing the Scottish public 5 about— (a) the circumstances in which authorisation of transplantation may be deemed to be given in the absence of express authorisation, and (b) the method by which a person may make— (i) an express authorisation under section 6, 10 (ii) an opt-out declaration under section 6B.”. 3 Establishment and maintenance of register (1) The 2006 Act is amended as follows. (2) After section 2 insert— “Establishment and maintenance of register 15 2A Establishment and maintenance of register (1) The Scottish Ministers must make arrangements for the establishment and maintenance of a register (referred to in this Part as “the Register”) for the purposes of facilitating— (a) the carrying out of their duty under section 1(a), 20 (b) the removal and use of part of the body of a deceased person for transplantation that is authorised by virtue of section 6, 6D, 6E, 6F, 6G, 8, 8D, 10 or, as the case may be, 10A. (2) The Register must include information relating to— (a) persons who authorise the removal and use of a part of the person’s body 25 after the person’s death for transplantation, (b) persons who do not authorise the removal and use of a part of the person’s body after the person’s death for transplantation. (3) The Register is not to be open to public inspection or search. (4) Information may be kept in the Register in any form the Scottish Ministers 30 consider appropriate. 2B Delegation of function of establishing and maintaining Register (1) Arrangements made by the Scottish Ministers under section 2A(1) may in particular authorise a person to establish and maintain the Register. (2) In this Part, “register organisation” means— 35 (a) the Scottish Ministers, or (b) where a person is authorised as mentioned in subsection (1), that person. (3) The Scottish Ministers must publish information about arrangements under section 2A(1) so far as they authorise a person as mentioned in subsection (1).