Human Organ Transplant Act Article 10-1

Medical care institutions shall report the relevant information about the persons who desire to donate organs and those awaiting organ transplants to the central competent authority; the method of reporting shall be determined by the central competent authority.The central competent authority shall subsidize the establishment of a dedicated agency to promote organ donation, deal with the allocation of organs, and attend to matters concerning the reports, preservation, and application of items mentioned in the previous paragraph and Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the previous Article. National organ banks may be established when necessary. Regulations concerning the content, criteria, and operating procedures of organ allocation, as well as other matters for compliance shall be laid down by the central competent authority.The competent authority, medical care institutions, related organizations and groups, and their staff members who come to know the names and relevant information of the persons who desire to donate organs, those awaiting organ transplants, and those who have received organ transplants shall not disclose such information without reason.To promote the ethos of organ donating, hospitals shall take initiatives to establish a donation soliciting mechanism to ask the family members of potential donors of suitable organs about their desire for organ donation, and hence expand the sources of organ donation.The central competent authority may subsidize a certain amount of funeral expenses for the family members of deceased donors; the amount of subsidization shall be determined by the central competent authority.