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    45 CFR Sec. 46.204

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    Title 45
    SUBTITLE A
    PART 46
    Subpart B

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    Sec. 46.204 Ethical Advisory Boards.

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      (a) One or more Ethical Advisory Boards shall be established by
    the Secretary. Members of these board(s) shall be so selected that
    the board(s) will be competent to deal with medical, legal, social,
    ethical, and related issues and may include, for example, research
    scientists, physicians, psychologists, sociologists, educators,
    lawyers, and ethicists, as well as representatives of the general
    public.  No board member may be a regular, full-time employee of
    the Department of Health and Human Services.
      (b) At the request of the Secretary, the Ethical Advisory Board
    shall render advice consistent with the policies and requirements
    of this part as to ethical issues, involving activities covered by
    this subpart, raised by individual applications or proposals.  In
    addition, upon request by the Secretary, the Board shall render
    advice as to classes of applications or proposals and general
    policies, guidelines, and procedures.
      (c) A Board may establish, with the approval of the Secretary,
    classes of applications or proposals which: (1) Must be submitted
    to the Board, or (2) need not be submitted to the Board. Where the
    Board so establishes a class of applications or proposals which
    must be submitted, no application or proposal within the class may
    be funded by the Department or any component thereof until the
    application or proposal has been reviewed by the Board and the
    Board has rendered advice as to its acceptability from an ethical
    standpoint.
      (d) No application or proposal involving human in vitro
    fertilization may be funded by the Department or any component
    thereof until the application or proposal has been reviewed by the
    Ethical Advisory Board and the Board has rendered advice as to its
    acceptability from an ethical standpoint.
    (40 FR 33528, Aug. 8, 1975, as amended at 43 FR 1759, Jan. 11,
    1978)