Statutory Basis for
TITLE 45
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS
PART 46
PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS
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45 CFR 46
IMPLEMENTS THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS OF
THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT
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AS AMENDED BY
THE HEALTH RESEARCH EXTENSION ACT OF 1985
PUBLIC LAW 99-158
NOVEMBER 20, 1985
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS; ETHICS GUIDANCE PROGRAM
Sec. 491. (a) The Secretary shall
by regulation require that each entity which applies for a grant,
contract, or cooperative agreement under this Act for any project
or program which involves the conduct of biomedical or behavioral
research involving human subjects submit in or with its
application for such grant, contract, or cooperative agreement
assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that it has established
(in accordance with regulations which the Secretary shall
prescribe) a board (to be known as an >Institutional
Review Board=)
to review biomedical and behavioral research involving human
subjects conducted at or supported by such entity in order to
protect the rights of the human subjects of such research.
(b)(1) The Secretary shall
establish a program within the Department of Health and Human
Services under which requests for clarification and guidance with
respect to ethical issues raised in connection with biomedical
and behavioral research involving human subjects are responded to
promptly and appropriately.
(2) The Secretary shall
establish a process for the prompt and appropriate response to
information provided to the Director of NIH respecting incidences
of violations of the rights of human subjects of research for
which funds have been made available under this Act. The process
shall include procedures for the receiving of reports of such
information from recipients of funds under this Act and taking
appropriate action with respect to such violations.
FETAL RESEARCH
Sec. 498. (a) The Secretary
may not conduct or support any research or experimentation, in
the United States of in any other country, on a nonviable living
human fetus ex utero or a living human fetus ex utero for whom
viability has not been ascertained unless the research or
experimentation --
(1) may enhance the well-being or
meet the health needs of the fetus or enhance the probability of
its survival to viability; or
(2) will pose no added risk of
suffering, injury, or death to the fetus and the purpose of the
research or experimentation is the development of important
biomedical knowledge which cannot be obtained by other means.
(b) In administering the
regulations for the protection of human research subjects which
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(1) apply to research conducted or supported by the Secretary;
(2) involve living human fetuses in utero; and
(3) are published in Section 46.208 of Part 46 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations;
or any successor to such regulations, the Secretary shall require that the risk standard (published in Section 46.102(g) of such Part 46 or any successor to such regulations) be the same for fetuses which are intended to be aborted and fetuses which are intended to be carried to term.
NOTE:Section 46.102(g) becomes Section 46.102(i) in Title 45 CFR Part 46 as revised on June 18, 1991.
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AS AMENDED BY
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH REVITALIZATION ACT
OF 1993
PUBLIC LAW 103-43
JUNE 10, 1993
CERTAIN PROVISIONS REGARDING REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF
PROPOSALS FOR RESEARCH
Sec. 492A. (a) Review as
Precondition to Research.--
(1) Protection of Human Research
Subjects.--
(A) In the case of any
application submitted to the Secretary for financial assistance
to conduct research, the Secretary may not approve or fund any
application that is subject to review under section 491(a) by an
Institutional Review Board unless the application has undergone
review in accordance with such section and has been recommended
for approval by a majority of the members of the Board conducting
such review.
(B) In the case of research
that is subject to review under procedures established by the
Secretary for the protection of human subjects in clinical
research conducted by the National Institutes of Health, the
Secretary may not authorize the conduct of the research unless
the research has, pursuant to such procedures, been recommended
for approval.