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Human Biomedical
Mental Capacity Act Statistics and Registration Research Act (2015),

(2005) Services Act (2007) Singapore

Under the Mental Capacity The Statistics and Registration An Act to regulate the
Act of 2005 any research that Service Act 2007 only applies to data conduct of human biomedical
proposes to involve the designated as ‘Official Statistics’ and research, to further regulate
recruitment of participants aged includes statistics produced by the Office certain restricted human
16 and above who lack (or lose) for National Statistics (ONS), central
capacity to consent to take part in government, and devolved biomedical research, to prohibit
the research must have ethical administrations. Section 39(1) of the Act certain types of human
approval by a recognised states that it is a criminal offense for an biomedical research, to regulate
appropriate body such as the 'Approved researcher' to enable the tissue banks and tissue banking
Social Care Research Ethics deduction of personal information from activities, to prohibit commercial
Committee or certain National data used in research projects: trading of human tissue, to
Research Ethics Service Research "If the identity of that person is provide for matters connected
Ethics Committees. University specified, can be deduced from the therewith and to make related
ethics committees are not information, or can be deduced from the
recognised as appropriate bodies information taken together with any amendments to certain other
and so are unable to approve other published information, then this Acts.
research. will constitute an offence".