(1)The following bodies established or to be established by Royal Charter shall be Research Councils for the purposes of this Act, that is to say,—
(a)[F1. F2... the Medical Research Council; and]
(b)[F1if Her Majesty is pleased to establish such a body, each of the two bodies respectively referred to in this Act as the Science Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council; and]
(c)any [F3other] body which is established for purposes connected with scientific research and consists of persons appointed by a Minister of the Crown and which is declared by Order in Council to be established as a Research Council for purposes of this Act.
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(4)No recommendation shall be made to Her Majesty to make an Order in Council declaring a body to be a Research Council under subsection (1)(c) above unless a draft of the Order, specifying the objects or principal objects of that body, has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1(1)(a)(b) and word omitted (31.10.2018 for specified purposes, 30.3.2020 for specified purposes) by virtue of Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 12 para. 4(2)(a); S.I. 2018/1054, reg. 2(d)(ii); S.I. 2020/321, reg. 2(d)(i)
F2Words in s. 1(1)(a) repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, S. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X, Group 4
F3Word in s. 1(1)(c) omitted (31.10.2018 for specified purposes) by virtue of Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 12 para. 4(2)(b); S.I. 2018/1054, reg. 2(d)(ii)
F4S. 1(2)(3) omitted (31.10.2018 for specified purposes, 30.3.2020 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 12 para. 4(2)(c); S.I. 2018/1054, reg. 2(d)(ii); S.I. 2020/321, reg. 2(d)(ii)