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Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004

Prohibited and regulated activities - Advisory committee - Guidelines and advice

39: Advisory committee to call for and consider submissions before giving significant advice

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"Committee must ask for and consider public feedback before giving important advice"

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When you give significant advice, you must follow some rules. You have to ask people for their thoughts and ideas before you give your advice. This is so you can consider what they have to say.

You do this by sharing a discussion paper or an outline of your proposed advice and giving people a chance to make submissions. Then, you have to think about what they have said before you give your advice. This applies to advice given under section 37 or section 38, or advice that is of significant public interest but not urgent.

If your advice is about whether a treatment should be declared established, it is not considered urgent. You still have to ask for and consider people's submissions before giving your advice. This helps ensure that you have thought about different perspectives before making a decision.

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Part 2Prohibited and regulated activities
Advisory committee: Guidelines and advice

39Advisory committee to call for and consider submissions before giving significant advice

  1. This section applies to advice that—

  2. is given under section 37 or section 38; or
    1. although not given under those sections, is of significant public interest but is not required as a matter of urgency.

      1. The advisory committee may give advice to which this section applies only after it has,—

      2. on the basis of a discussion paper or an outline of the proposed advice, given interested parties and members of the public a reasonable opportunity to make submissions; and
        1. taken any such submissions into account.

          1. For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), advice is not required as a matter of urgency if it relates to the question whether or not a treatment or procedure should be declared to be an established procedure.