Part 4: Medical Devices Chapter 2: Regulations: Information Systems, Advisory Committee Section 20: Advisory Committee
Section 20 provides the Secretary of State with a power to make regulations creating a statutory committee to advise on matters relating to medical devices. Further, Section 20 lists the matters relating to establishing an advisory committee that the regulations may cover.
	Subsection (1) enables regulations to be made to establish a committee to advise the Secretary of State on matters relating to medical devices.
	Subsections (2)(a) to (d) enable regulations to make, among other things, provisions about membership of the committee, establishment of sub-committees by the committee and matters which the committee may or must consider. It also allows the regulations to make provisions for co-operation between the committee and the Commission on Human Medicines and other bodies with medical devices expertise. The Commission on Human Medicines is a statutory committee which advises Ministers on the safety, efficacy and quality of medicinal products.
	Subsection (3) sets out a non-exhaustive list of matters in respect of which regulations under 2(a) may make provision. Subsection 3(a) sets out that provisions made under 2(a) relating to membership of the committee may include numbers of members, their appointment and the circumstances in which they cease to be members. Subsection 3(b) allows provisions made under subsection 2(a) to include requirements for the independence of members from the Secretary of State. Subsection 3(c) allows for provisions to be made for payment of remuneration and allowances to committee members.