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Medicines Act 1981

Application and administration of Act - Administration

8: Advisory and technical committees

You could also call this:

"The Minister can appoint expert groups to help make decisions about medicines."

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The Minister can appoint committees to give advice on things related to this Act. You can think of these committees like groups of experts who help the Minister make decisions. The Minister decides what each committee does. The Minister can pay committee members for their work, and this money comes from Parliament. The amount they get paid is decided by the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951, which is a law that says how much people can be paid for this kind of work. Each committee can decide how it wants to work, as long as it follows the rules of this Act and any other regulations that apply.

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Part 1Application and administration of Act
Administration

8Advisory and technical committees

  1. The Minister may from time to time appoint such advisory or technical committees as he thinks fit to advise him for any of the purposes of this Act, and may from time to time determine the functions of any such committee.

  2. There may be paid out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose to the members of any committee appointed under this section remuneration by way of fees, salary, or allowances and travelling allowances and expenses in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951, and the provisions of that Act shall apply accordingly as if the committee were a statutory board within the meaning of that Act.

  3. Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any regulations made under this Act, every such committee may determine its own procedure.

Compare
  • 1960 No 97 s 5
  • 1969 No 7 s 20
  • 1979 No 27 s 8