Part 2 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 establishes the Information Publication Scheme (IPS) for Australian Government agencies subject to the Act. The IPS requires agencies to publish a broad range of information on their websites and to list certain documents that are not available online with detail of how they can be accessed.
Information required to be published is indexed from this central IPS entry point.
Information on requesting access to other information the NHMRC holds, through a Freedom of Information request, can be found on Freedom of Information.
Information that we have released under Freedom of Information requests is available on FOI Disclosure Log.
Required information
1) Agency plan
- NHMRC IPS plan (see 'Downloads' section below)
2) Who we are
- About the NHMRC
- Structure and organisation chart
- Senior executive and leadership team
- Location of NHMRC offices, including contact information
Agency appointments – non-APS employees
- Appointment of CEO
- Appointments to Council
- Appointments to Principal Committees
- Appointments to the Audit and Risk Committee
- Appointment of Commissioner of Complaints
3) What we do
Establishing/ governing legislation
- National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992
- Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002
- Prohibition of Human cloning for Reproduction Act 2002
Other than its functions as set out in the NHMRC Act, as a statutory authority NHMRC is also bound by the Public Service Act 1999, the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, and other legislation and regulations as determined by the Public Service Commission (www.apsc.gov.au), including the APS Values and Code of Conduct.
Agency operational information
- NHMRC's Role
- NHMRC Corporate Plan
- Research funding application calendar
- NHMRC’s policies and priorities for funded research
- Applying for research funding
- Protocols for externally developed guidelines
- Complaints Policy
Codes
- Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research 2018
- National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2023
- Australian code of practice for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes 8th Edition, 2013
4) Our Reports and responses to Parliament
- Annual Report and NHMRC Corporate Plan
- Embryo Research Licensing Committee Embryo Reseach Licensing Committee biannual reports to the Parliament of Australia
- Senate Standing Orders No 12 – File lists (Harradine report) (published by the Department of Health
- Senate Standing Orders No 13 – consultants/ contractors (Murray Motion)
- Senate Standing Orders No 16 – grants awarded (Minchin Motion) (published on GrantConnect)
5) Consultation arrangements
The NHMRC is dedicated to ensuring that the Australian community has the best opportunity to participate in developing NHMRC health advice, advice on ethical behaviour in health care and the conduct of medical research. A public consultation strategy is an important part of any NHMRC recommendation or guideline development process. All NHMRC public consultations can be found on our public consultation website:
6) Routinely requested information under the FOI Act and FOI disclosure log
Where the NHMRC identifies information routinely requested and released in response to FOI requests, we will actively release that information through our IPS.
Some of this information may already be available on the FOI Disclosure Log.
7) Contact details, including for FOIs
NHMRC’s Freedom of Information Officer can be contacted about access to the agency’s information or documents under the FOI Act, including information about the IPS.
We invite you to provide comments on our Information Publication Scheme entry, particularly in relation to any documents that appear not to be discoverable, understandable or machine-readable. See contact us for more information.
If you would like to make a complaint about NHMRC’s Information Publication Scheme this can also be done through the contact us page. Please see NHMRC’s Complaints Policy for further information about NHMRC’s complaints process.
8) Our priorities
9) Information about the impact of NHRMC activities
10) Our finances
- Portfolio Budget Statements – Budget 2023–24 Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
- Other financial information – includes links to Legal services reporting and our Annual Procurement Plan
11) Additional operational information
- Privacy policy
- Information about working at NHMRC, including NHMRC Enterprise Agreement
Documents currently not available online
If you wish to have access to any of the documents listed in Table 1, please contact us.
| Reference | Document title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | National Health and Medical Research Council Session Reports (2nd-114th) | Various |
| N/A | NHMRC Committees appointed by the CEO under Section 39 of the NHMRC Act | Various |
Accessibility
If you need assistance because the document or information on this website is not available in a format you can access, please contact us for an alternative accessible format. We have further information on accessibility.
Charges
NHMRC may impose a charge to cover the reimbursement of specific reproduction costs, or other specific incidental costs, incurred in giving access to IPS information that is not available on our website. Any charges applied will be consistent with the Freedom of Information (Charges) Regulations 2019 and will represent the lowest reasonable cost. Charges are noted in Table 2
| Format | Charges |
|---|---|
| Photocopy | 10 cents per page |
| Copy (other than photocopy) | $4.40 per page |
| Copy of the document in the form of a computer tape or a computer disk | An amount not exceeding the actual costs incurred by the NHMRC in producing the copy |
| Copy of the document to be sent to the applicant by post or delivered to the applicant | An amount not exceeding the cost of postage or delivery |
