Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ACT 1992 - SECT 14A

  (1)   The CEO may, on the advice of the Council, approve guidelines prepared by a person or body from outside the NHMRC.

  (2)   The Council may only advise the CEO to approve the guidelines if the Council is satisfied that the person or body, before submitting the guidelines to the CEO for his or her approval:

  (a)   prepared a draft of the guidelines that the person or body proposed to submit to the CEO; and

  (b)   published a notice, in a manner and form acceptable to the Council:

  (i)   containing a summary of the draft guidelines; and

  (ii)   stating where copies of the draft guidelines could be obtained; and

  (iii)   inviting persons or bodies to make submissions relating to the draft in accordance with the procedures, and within the period, specified in the notice; and

  (c)   had regard to any submissions received pursuant to the invitation referred to in subparagraph   (b)(iii).

Note:   Subsection   (2) does not apply if the guidelines are of minor significance: see section   14B.