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NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ACT 1992 - SECT 10

Human research guidelines

CEO to issue guidelines

  (1)   Without limiting any of the matters on which the CEO may issue guidelines under subparagraph   7(1)(a)(v), the CEO must, under that subparagraph, issue human research guidelines.

Australian Health Ethics Committee to develop guidelines

  (2)   The Council may only provide human research guidelines to the CEO under subsection   9(1) precisely as developed by the Australian Health Ethics Committee and provided to the Council for the purpose under this Division.

  (3)   However, the Council is not obliged to provide particular guidelines referred to in subsection   (2) to the CEO merely because the Australian Health Ethics Committee has provided the guidelines to it in accordance with this Division.

Guidelines must be tabled in Parliament

  (4)   Human research guidelines issued by the CEO are to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House of the issuing of the guidelines.



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