Regulation 3 Advisory committee

The Health Ministers may appoint a committee to be called the Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee to advise them with respect to the grant, renewal, suspension, revocation and variation of certificates in those cases where, in the opinion of the Health Ministers, certificates should not be granted, renewed, suspended or varied without the advice of the said committee and generally in connection with the system of prior authorisation envisaged by Article 5(a) of Council Directive 76/579/Euratom.

The members of the Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee, of whom a majority shall be doctors, shall be appointed by the Health Ministers and shall include persons appearing to the Health Ministers to have wide and recent experience appropriate and relevant to advising on the administration of radioactive medicinal products and related scientific and radiological safety matters.

The Health Ministers shall appoint one of the members of the Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee, being a doctor, to be chairman of the said committee.

The provisions of regulations made under paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 1 to the Act in respect of committees established under section 4 of the Act shall apply to the Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee as they apply to such committees.