Section 16

This section applies where human biomedical research is conducted jointly or in collaboration with more than one research institution and there is an agreement among the research institutions for one research institution to be appointed as the lead research institution for the purpose of coordinating the research (called in this section the lead research institution).

For the purposes of their common human biomedical research, the research institutions may, instead of appointing the institutional review boards appointed by them under section 15, appoint a common institutional review board which may be the institutional review board appointed by the lead research institution or such other institutional review board as may be agreed among the institutions.

This Act applies, with the necessary modifications, to the common institutional review board designated by the research institutions under subsection (2) in the same manner as it applies to the institutional review board appointed by the research institution under section 15.