15. In the Private and Voluntary Health Care (England) Regulations 2001 F1, in regulation 24 (research), for paragraph (2) substitute the following paragraph—U.K.
“(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), “appropriate Research Ethics Committee” means—
(a)an ethics committee established or recognised in accordance with Part 2 of the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004; or
(b)any other committee established to advise on the ethics of research investigations in human beings, and recognised for that purpose by or on behalf of the Secretary of State;”.
Textual Amendments