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32 : subsection (8)(b) where the individual previously appointed as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer (as the case may be) stops acting, or is unable to act, in that capacity for any reason.

Appointment of specified committees

25.—(1) This section applies only to a licensee of a prescribed category or description.

(2) A section 25 licensee must appoint one or more specified committees as may be prescribed relating to—
 * (a) the category or description of licensees to which the section 25 licensee belongs;
 * (b) any licensable healthcare service that is provided by the section 25 licensee; or
 * (c) any programme or activity undertaken or to be undertaken in relation to the provision of any licensable healthcare service by the section 25 licensee.

Ethics review of certain medical treatment

26.—(1) This section applies only in relation to the provision of medical treatment of a prescribed category or description (called in this Act a prescribed medical treatment).

(2) A licensee that intends to provide the prescribed medical treatment must, before the prescribed medical treatment is provided to the individual—
 * (a) where the licensee is a section 25 licensee—refer or cause to be referred the individual’s case to at least one of the licensee’s clinical ethics committees for an ethics review of the proposed prescribed medical treatment; or
 * (b) where the licensee is not a section 25 licensee—refer or cause to be referred the individual’s case to any clinical ethics committee appointed by a section 25 licensee for an ethics review of the proposed prescribed medical treatment.