ACT ON CORD BLOOD MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to ensure the quality and safety of human cord blood and contribute to the development of medical science and the improvement of national health by prescribing matters necessary for the safe management and transplantation of human cord blood, research with regard thereto, etc.

Article 2(Definitions) #

The terms used in this Act shall be defined as follows:

1. The term "human cord blood (hereinafter referred to as "cord blood")" means blood stored in the umbilical cord and placenta detached from an infant and woman in childbed who gives birth to the infant;

2. The term "cord blood products" means hematopoietic stem cells made by isolating active ingredients from cord blood collected to use for transplantation, etc. and other products prescribed by Presidential Decree;

3. The term "duties regarding cord blood management" means duties of collecting, testing, and registering, etc, cord blood after being donated or entrusted therewith, or duties of manufacturing, keeping, supplying and controlling the quality of cord blood products;

4. The term "cord blood transplantation" means transplanting cord blood products to patients for the purpose of medical treatment, etc.;

5. The term "cord blood donation" means that a woman in childbed provides cord blood collected in the course of childbirth to a cord blood bank without compensation for the purpose of medical treatment for a disease of a person outside of kinship, or medical research, etc.;

6. The term "entrusting cord blood" means that a woman in childbed entrusts a cord blood bank with cord blood collected in the course of childbirth for a limited period for the purpose of medical treatment of her newborn infant or persons in kinship;

7. The term "cord blood bank" means an institution permitted as prescribed in Article 11 (1), which is either a cord blood bank (hereinafter referred to as "public cord blood bank") managing cord blood donated through cord blood donation (hereinafter referred to as "donated cord blood") or a cord blood bank (hereinafter referred to as "family cord blood bank") managing cord blood entrusted (hereinafter referred to as "family cord blood").

ACT ON CORD BLOOD MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH

Article 1(Purpose) #

Article 2(Definitions) #

Article 3(Respect for Cord Blood Donation) #

Article 4(Responsibilities of the State and Local Governments) #

Article 5(Prohibition of Sale and Purchase of Cord Blood, etc.) #

Article 6(Cord Blood Committee) #

Article 7(Consent to Donation and Entrustment of Cord Blood) #

Article 8(Matters to Be Observed when Collecting Cord Blood) #

Article 9(Requirements for Prohibition of Collection, etc. of Cord Blood) #

Article 10(Tests of Cord Blood and Cord Blood Products) #

Article 11(Permission, etc. for Cord Blood Banks) #

Article 12(Prohibition of Duties, etc. not Permitted) #

Article 13(Exchanges of Information among Cord Blood Banks) #

Article 14(Entrustment of Duties by Cord Blood Banks) #

Article 15(Matters to Be Observed by Cord Blood Banks) #

Article 16(Discardment, etc. of Family Cord Blood) #

Article 17(Establishment, etc. of Public Cord Blood Banks) #

Article 18(Management Expenses, etc. for Donated Cord Blood) #

Article 19(Medical Directors) #

Article 20(Preparation, etc. of Records) #

Article 21(Perusal, etc. of Records) #

Article 22(Transfer of Control, etc. of Cord Blood, etc.) #

Article 23(Establishment, etc. of Cord Blood Information Center) #

Article 24(Cooperation, etc. with Cord Blood Information Center) #

Article 25(Medical Institutions for Cord Blood Transfusion) #

Article 26(Request, etc. for Search for Donated Cord Blood Products) #

Article 27(Supply of Cord Blood Products) #

Article 28(Trans-Boundary Movement, etc. of Cord Blood Products) #

Article 29(Cord Blood Research Institutions) #

Article 30(Guidance, Supervision, etc.) #

Article 31(Inspection, etc. of Cord Blood Banks) #

Article 32(Corrective Orders) #

Article 33(Suspension of Duties) #

Article 34(Revocation of Permission, etc.) #

Article 35(Hearings) #

Article 36(Prohibition of Use of Similar Names) #

Article 37(Prohibition of False or Exaggerated Advertisement) #

Article 38(Prohibition of Disclosure of Confidential Information) #

Article 39(Commissioning, Entrusting, etc. Authority) #

Article 40(Penalty Provisions) #

Article 41(Suspension of Qualifications to Be Imposed Concurrently) #

Article 42(Joint Penalty Provisions) #

Article 43(Administrative Fines) #