Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT 1987 No. 166 of 1987 - SECT 7

7. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Corporation has power to do all things
necessary or convenient to be done for, or in connection with, the performance
of its functions and, in particular, may:

   (a)  make applications, including joint applications, for patents;

   (b)  deal with patents vested in the Corporation or in the Corporation and
        other persons;

   (c)  make charges for work done, services rendered, and goods and
        information supplied, by it;

   (d)  enter into agreements under section 8 for the carrying out of
        horticultural research and development projects by other persons;

   (e)  enter into agreements under section 9 for the carrying out of
        horticultural research and development projects by the Corporation and
        other persons;

   (f)  accept gifts, grants, bequests and devises made to it, and act as
        trustee of money and other property vested in it on trust; and

   (g)  do any thing incidental to any of its powers.

(2) The Corporation shall not, except with the Minister's written approval,
enter into a contract or agreement for the purchase of real or personal
property for an amount exceeding $100,000 or, if a higher amount is prescribed
for the purposes of this subsection, the higher amount.