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Question regarding date Nuremberg Code Royal Assent enshrined in Scots Law: FOI release

Published: 27 January 2021
Directorate: Chief Medical Officer Directorate
Topic: Health and social care, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202000109565
Date received: 10 November 2020
Date responded: 7 December 2020

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Information requested

"The date that the Nuremberg Code was given Royal Assent to be enshrined in Scots Law".

Response

As a general principle, health ethics is not devolved to Scotland and therefore the Nuremberg Principles are not part of Scots Law. However, research conducted in NHS Scotland is regulated and governed through a UK wide system which observes those principles.

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