Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ACT 1992 - SECT 5B

  (1)   The National Health and Medical Research Council is established by this section.

  (2)   The NHMRC comprises the following:

  (a)   the CEO;

  (b)   the Council and committees;

  (c)   the staff of the NHMRC.

  (3)   For the purposes of the finance law (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 ):

  (a)   the NHMRC is a listed entity; and

  (b)   the CEO is the accountable authority of the NHMRC; and

  (c)   the following persons are officials of the NHMRC:

  (i)   the CEO;

  (ii)   the members of the Council;

  (iii)   the members of a committee;

  (iv)   the staff of the NHMRC;

  (v)   the Commissioner;

  (vi)   consultants engaged under section   46;

  (vii)   persons whose services are made available to the NHMRC under section   48 (other than a person who is an inspector within the meaning of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 ); and

  (d)   the purposes of the NHMRC include:

  (i)   the function of the NHMRC referred to in section   5C; and

  (ii)   the functions of the CEO referred to in section   7; and

  (iii)   the functions of the Council referred to in section   21; and

  (iv)   the functions of a committee established under subsection   35(1), 35(5) or 39(1) (including the functions of the Embryo Research Licensing Committee of the NHMRC referred to in section   14 of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 ); and

  (v)   the functions of the Commissioner referred to in section   56.

Note:   The Embryo Research Licensing Committee of the NHMRC is a Principal Committee (see subsection   13(2) of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 ).