PART 2ETHICS COMMITTEES

Establishment of ethics committees6

1

The Authority may establish ethics committees to act—

a

for the entire United Kingdom or for such areas of the United Kingdom; and

b

in relation to such descriptions or classes of clinical trials,

as the Authority consider appropriate.

2

The Authority may—

a

vary the area for which any committee they have established acts or, as the case may be, the descriptions or classes of clinical trials in relation to which such a committee acts; and

b

abolish any such committee.