Paragraph 18

In the National Health Service (Functions of Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts and Administration Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2002 M1, in regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1), for the definition of “research ethics committee” substitute the following definition—

• ““research ethics committee” means—

  1. (a)

     an ethics committee established or recognised in accordance with Part 2 of the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004, or

  2. (b)

     any other committee established to advise on the ethics of research investigations on human beings and recognised for that purpose by or on behalf of the Secretary of State;”.