The Medicines (Advisory Bodies) Regulations 2005

Amendment of section 4 of the Act

5.—(1) Section 4 of the Act (establishment of committees)(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), omit the words from “, having regard to” to “consider appropriate,”.

(3) In subsection (2)(a), before “or the Clinical Trials Regulations”, insert “, the Marketing Authorisation Regulations”.

(4) After subsection (4), insert the following subsection—

“(4A) A committee established under this section shall have at least eight members.”.

(5) For subsection (6), substitute—

“(6) In this Act “the appropriate committee”, for the purposes of any provision of this Act under which a function falls to be performed, means—

(a) in a case where—

(i) a committee has been established under this section for purposes which consist of or include any of those specified in subsection (3) of this section, and

(ii) the authority performing that function considers it to be the appropriate committee in the circumstances,

that committee; and

(b) in any other case, the Commission.”.

(1)

Section 4 was amended by paragraph 15 of Part 3 of Schedule 3 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28) and by paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 10 to S.I. 2004/1031.