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84 Offence to administer unapproved medical research procedure

A medical research practitioner must not administer a medical research procedure to a person who does not have decision-making capacity to make a medical treatment decision in respect of the procedure unless the relevant research project has been approved by the relevant human research ethics committee.

240 penalty units.