REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1517
AN ACT REGULATING THE COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND SALE
OF HUMAN BLOOD, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF BLOOD BANKS AND BLOOD
PROCESSING LABORATORIES
(REPEALED BY REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7719)
In order to promote public
health, it is declared a national policy to prevent trafficking in human blood
and its products and derivatives.
Section 2
As used in this Act:
"Blood" means
human blood, processed or unprocessed, and includes its products and
derivatives.
"Person"
includes corporations, partnerships, associations, and organizations
"Cost" means the
actual purchase price of unprocessed blood and its handling charges, such as
those for its collection, processing, storage, transportation, and sale, and a
reasonable allowance for spoilage.
Section 3
It shall be the unlawful
for any person to establish or operate a blood bank or blood processing
laboratory, or to collect or process blood if he is not a licensed physician,
or to sell blood collected from another person, even if authorized by the
latter, without first securing a license from the Department of Health:
Provided, That in cases of emergency, blood transfusion shall be allowed under
the responsibility of the attending physician without such license: And
provided, further, That persons operating blood banks and blood processing
laboratories on the date of the approval of this Act may continue to operate
and same if they secure such license within sixty days from the date of the
issuance of the rules and regulations provided for in section five hereof.
No license shall be
granted or renewed by the Department of Health for the establishment or
operation of a blood bank or blood processing laboratory unless such bank or
laboratory be established or operated in accordance with accepted scientific
standards, is under the administration, direction and supervision of a licensed
and qualified physician, and blood is collected and/or processed therein by
licensed physicians or under their direct supervision and responsibility.
No license shall be
granted or renewed by said Department for the collection and/or processing of
blood unless the licensee complies with the requirements hereinabove
established for blood banks and blood processing laboratories.
Section 4
Blood banks and processing
laboratories shall be operated on a non-profit basis. Blood collecting or
processing by other blood collectors or processors or by individual physicians
shall also be on a non-profit basis. Blood shall be sold by such banks and
laboratories, other blood collectors or processors, and individual physicians
at cost.
Section 5
The Secretary of Health is
charged with the responsibility of strictly enforcing this Act, and shall issue
such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions,
including rules and regulations prescribing, from time to time, the maximum
ceilings for handling charges of blood, such as charges for its collection,
processing, storage, transportation, and sale, and a reasonable allowance for
spoilage, which shall be considered as part of the cost of blood.
Section 6
Any person who violates
any provision of this Act or of the rules and regulations issued thereunder
shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one month and not more than
one year or by a fine of not less than one hundred pesos and not more than one
thousand pesos or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the
court.
Section 7
This Act shall take effect
upon its approval.
Approved: June 16, 1956
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