LAW NO. 20,673 AMENDS LAW NO. 19,451 REGARDING THE DETERMINATION OF THOSE WHO MAY BE CONSIDERED ORGAN DONORS Having present that the National Congress has given its approval to the following bill, originating in a motion of the Ladies and gentlemen, Victor Torres, Enrique Accorsi, Jorge Burgos, Juan Luis Castro, Javier Macaya, Manuel Monsalve, Marco Antonio Núñez, Alberto Robles, Karla Rubilar, and Matias Walker Bill: " Single article.-Enter the following amendments in law No. 19.451, which establishes rules on transplantation and donation of (1) Reposition Article 22a by the following: " Article 2 ° bis.-Persons whose state of health so requires shall have the right to be the recipient of organs. Any person over the age of eighteen years shall be considered, by the sole ministry of law, as a donor to his organs after he has died, unless until before the removal of the organ is decided upon, a documentation shall be submitted. reliable, given to a notary public, in which the donor in life manifested his will not to be. The notary shall forward this information to the Civil Registry and Identification Service for the purposes of the National Register of Non-Donors, as established by the respective regulations. Where there is doubt as to the quality of the donor, the following persons shall be consulted in advance on the removal of one or more organs from the deceased, by order of precedence: (a) The spouse who lived with the deceased or the person who lived with him in relation to the conjugal type. b) Any of the children over the age of 18. c) Any of the parents. d) The legal representative, the guardian or the curator. e) Any of the siblings over the age of 18. f) Any of the grandchildren over the age of 18. g) Any of the grandparents. h) Any relative consanguine to the fourth grade inclusive. i) Any relative by affinity up to and including the second degree. The fact of presenting to the doctor responsible for the procedure contradictory documents or the existence of different declarations of the persons referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be understood as a doubt. For the purposes of their intervention in the transplantation procedure, the preceding list is a ranking order, so that the intervention of one or more persons belonging to a category excludes the other persons from the the same category and in the following categories. In the event that a number of persons are on an equal footing for the receipt of an organ, the fact that they are not registered in the Register of Non-Donors must be taken into account in order to prioritise it in respect of which it is. " 2) Article 9. Transitional Article.-This law shall enter into force on the first day of the fourth month following its publication. " And because I have had to approve and sanction it; therefore, promulgate and take effect as the law of the Republic. Santiago, May 29, 2013.-SEBASTIAN PINERA ECHENIQUE, President of the Republic.-Jaime Manalich Muxi, Minister of Health. Transcribed for his knowledge law Nº 20,673 of 2013.-Salutes intently to Ud., Patricio Herrera Carazo, Undersecretary of Public Health (S).