Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ACT 1992 - SECT 9

  (1)   The CEO may only:

  (a)   make a regulatory recommendation; or

  (b)   issue guidelines under paragraph   7(1)(a);

precisely as developed by the Council (or in the case of human research guidelines, as developed by the Australian Health Ethics Committee) and provided to the CEO by the Council for the purpose under this Division.

Note:   Subsection   (1) does not apply if the recommendation or guidelines are urgent: see subsection   14(1).

  (2)   However, the CEO is not obliged to make a particular recommendation or to issue particular guidelines (including human research guidelines) merely because the Council has provided the recommendation or guidelines to him or her in accordance with this Division.

Regulatory recommendations and guidelines are not legislative instruments

  (3)   Regulatory recommendations and guidelines are not legislative instruments.