Human Biomedical Research Act 2015 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Institutional Review Boards
16. Appointment of institutional review boards by multiple research institutions
Feedback & supportThis 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).
human biomedical research
“human biomedical research” has the meaning given by section 3;
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.
research
“research” means any systematic investigation with the intention of developing or contributing to generalisable knowledge;
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.
institutional review board
“institutional review board” means a board or committee appointed by a research institution under section 15 or 16 to conduct an ethics review of proposed human biomedical research;