Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00108:section:35:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00108
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 35 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 37330–38803

Council may delegate additional functions to a Principal Committee: see section 82.
 (8) The Australian Health Ethics Committee is constituted as provided in section 36.
 (9) A Principal Committee other than the Australian Health Ethics Committee comprises:
 (a) a Chair, who must be a member of the Council; and
 (b) the members appointed by the Minister (whether Council members or not).
Note 1: For the appointment, terms and conditions of the Chairs and other members of the Principal Committees, see Part 5.
Note 2: In certain circumstances, the Chair of a Principal Committee may be a person who is not a member of the Council: see subsection (10).
 (10) Despite subparagraph (6)(b)(i) and paragraph (9)(a), the Chair of a Principal Committee may be a person who is not a member of the Council if:
 (a) the Minister does not consider that any member of the Council has the appropriate expertise to be Chair of the Principal Committee; and
 (b) another member of the Principal Committee is a member of the Council.
 (11) Before the end of a period of 30 days from the day on which the Minister establishes, or is taken to have established, the Research Committee, the Australian Health Ethics Committee or another Principal Committee, the Minister must cause a notice of the establishment and functions of the Committee to be published in the Gazette.

Instruments are not legislative instruments
 (12) An instrument under this section is not a legislative instrument.