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Medicines Act 1981

Application and administration of Act - Administration

12: Committee may appoint subcommittees

You could also call this:

"The Committee can create smaller groups to help make decisions."

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The Medicines Review Committee can appoint smaller groups called subcommittees. You can think of a subcommittee as a smaller team that helps the main committee make decisions. The Committee chooses who is on these subcommittees and what they will do. When the Committee gives a task to a subcommittee about natural therapy, a specific person must be part of that subcommittee. This person was appointed under section 10(3) of the Act. The Committee is still in charge of the subcommittee. The Committee can change or end a subcommittee at any time. They can also take back a task they gave to a subcommittee if they want to.

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Part 1Application and administration of Act
Administration

12Committee may appoint subcommittees

  1. The Medicines Review Committee may from time to time appoint such subcommittees comprising 2 or more members of the Committee as it thinks fit to hear and determine such matters as the Committee may from time to time delegate to them.

  2. Notwithstanding subsection (1), where the Committee delegates to any subcommittee any matter relating to the practice of natural therapy, the person appointed under section 10(3) shall act as a member of the subcommittee.

  3. Every subcommittee appointed under this section shall be subject in all things to the control of the Committee, and may at any time be discharged, altered, or reconstituted by the Committee.

  4. Any delegation under this section may at any time be revoked by the Committee.

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  • 1979 No 27 s 17