Section 2: Removal from a living person

Each of the persons vested with parental authority or, where applicable, the minor’s guardian, expresses his or her consent before the president of the judicial court or his or her delegate under the conditions defined in articles R. 1231-2 and R. 1231-3. In the event of a life-threatening emergency, the consent of each of the persons vested with parental authority or, where applicable, the minor’s guardian, is obtained by the…

The persons exercising parental authority or, where applicable, the minor’s guardian, shall send the committee of experts referred to in article R. 1231-5 a request for authorisation to take the sample, accompanied by a copy of the documents by which their consent was obtained. The committee of experts hears the minor who is capable of discernment. It shall ensure that the minor who is capable of expressing his or her…

The committee of experts shall communicate its decision in writing to the persons exercising parental authority or, where applicable, to the minor’s guardian, as well as to the doctor in charge of the service, department or care structure of the health establishment in which the removal is envisaged, who shall forward it to the director of the establishment.

By way of derogation from articles R. 1241-9 to R. 1241-12, when the removal of haematopoietic cells collected from bone marrow is envisaged from a minor for the benefit of one of his or her parents, invested with the exercise of parental authority, the president of the judicial court, to whom the matter has been referred by the legal representatives under the conditions set out in article R. 1231-2, shall…