Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1987 No. 118, 1987 - SECT 9

9. After section 101 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Sub-committees of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee

"101A. (1) The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee:

   (a)  may establish such sub-committees as it thinks fit to assist it in
        performing its functions; and

   (b)  shall, if the Minister so requires in writing, establish a
        sub-committee to assist the Committee in advising the Minister on a
        particular matter referred to it by the Minister under subsection 101
        (3).

"(2) A sub-committee shall consist of the following persons (whether or not
members of the Committee):

   (a)  persons appointed by the Committee as members of the sub-committee;

   (b)  persons nominated by the Minister as members of the sub-committee.

"(3) A person shall not be appointed by the Committee, or nominated by the
Minister, as a member of a sub-committee unless the person has special
qualifications or experience in relation to the matter referred to the
sub-committee.

"(4) For the purposes of section 140, a sub-committee shall be taken to be a
committee established under this Act.".