{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990/section-9A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990/section-9A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/37",
  "legislation_title": "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-act-1990",
  "path": "section/9A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9A",
  "heading": "Power to delegate and establish committees",
  "text": "(1) The Authority may delegate a function to a committee, to a member or to staff.\n(2) The Authority may establish such committees or sub-committees as it thinks fit (whether to advise the Authority or to exercise a function delegated to it by the Authority).\n(3) Subject to any provision made by regulations under section 20A (appeals committees), the members of the committees or sub-committees may include persons who are not members of the Authority.\n(4) Subsection (1) has effect subject to any enactment requiring a decision to be taken by members of the Authority or by a committee consisting of members of the Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 9A substituted for s.9 (1.10.2009) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), ss. 10, 68(2); S.I. 2009/2232, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/37/section/9A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:58.103804+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}