Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ACT 1992 - SECT 18

             (1)  The first strategic plan must be given to the Minister not later than one month after 24 June 1993.

             (2)  The first strategic plan comes into force on the day on which it is given to the Minister.

             (3)  Each subsequent strategic plan must be given to the Minister before the end of the period to which the immediately preceding plan relates.

                   This subsection has effect subject to subsection (6).

             (4)  Each subsequent strategic plan must take into account the review of the immediately preceding strategic plan prepared and given to the Minister in accordance with section 17.

             (5)  After receiving a strategic plan, the Minister must either:

                     (a)  approve the plan; or

                     (b)  give the plan back to the CEO with a request for the CEO to give the Minister a different strategic plan for the same period.

             (6)  If the Minister requests the CEO to give him or her a different strategic plan, the CEO must do so as soon as reasonably practicable.

             (7)  A strategic plan comes into force:

                     (a)  immediately after the end of the period covered by the immediately preceding strategic plan that was in force; or

                     (b)  when it is approved by the Minister, if the Minister approves it after the end of that period.

             (8)  The Minister must cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament a copy of a strategic plan he or she has approved, within 15 sitting days of that House after he or she approves it.