Singapore legislation

Clause 67

Related amendment to Medicines Act

Section 18 of the Medicines Act (Cap. 176, 1985 Ed.) is amended by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraph:“(a)the conduct of clinical trials, the issue of clinical trial certificates, the exemption of clinical trials from sections 5 and 6, and matters relating to any consent for a subject to participate in a clinical trial, including —

(i)

the persons who may so consent;

(ii)

the considerations which any such person must take into account before so consenting;

(iii)

the circumstances in which the consent of such person may be relied upon; and

(iv)

the circumstances in which no consent of any person is required for the subject’s participation in the trial,and whether any matter so prescribed has effect in addition to or despite any other written law or rule of law;”.

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