Singapore legislation

Section 40

of Human Biomedical Research Act 2015

Section 40

Codes of practice or ethics

(1)

The Director may, from time to time —

(a)

issue one or more codes of practice for the purpose of providing guidance with respect to the requirements of this Act relating to the taking of consent, safety and research practices and for standards;

(b)

issue one or more codes of practice for the protection of the identity of individuals in relation to individually‑identifiable human biological material and health information;

(c)

issue one or more codes of ethics for the ethical conduct of human biomedical research or tissue banking activity;

(d)

approve as a code of practice or a code of ethics any document prepared by another person or body of persons other than the Director, if the Director considers the document as suitable for this purpose; and

(e)

amend or revoke the whole or part of any code of practice or code of ethics issued under paragraph (a), (b) or (c) or approved under paragraph (d).

(2)

The Director must publish any code of practice or code of ethics issued or approved under subsection (1), including any amendment or revocation of the code, in such manner as the Director thinks fit.

(3)

Any code of practice or code of ethics issued or approved under this section does not have any legislative effect and need not be published in the Gazette.

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