Commonwealth Numbered Acts

RURAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH ACT 1985 No. 102, 1985 - SECT 39

39. Sections 14 to 30 (inclusive), 41, 44 to 48 (inclusive), 50, 56, 58 and 61
apply to and in relation to the Special Research Council as if-

   (a)  any reference in any of those provisions (other than sub-section 14
        (3), 22 (1), (3) or (4), 27 (1), 29 (2), 30 (2) or (3), 44 (2), (4) or
        (5), 46 (4) or 50 (3) or (5)) to a Research Council or to a particular
        Research Council were a reference to the Special Research Council;

   (b)  any reference in any of those provisions to Research Councils included
        a reference to the Special Research Council;

   (c)  any reference in any of those provisions (other than sub-section 27
        (1) or 29 (2)) to a Research Fund were a reference to the
        Special Research Fund;

   (d)  sub-section 14 (3) were omitted and the following sub-section were
        substituted:



"(3) The Minister shall not determine the number of members referred to in
paragraph (1) (c) in relation to the Special Research Council until he or she
has consulted the prescribed organization or each prescribed organization and
has had regard to such views (if any) as are expressed by that organization or
each of those organizations.";

   (e)  sub-section 22 (1) were omitted and the following sub-section were
        substituted:



"(1) The Special Research Council shall develop, and prepare in written form,
for each successive period determined in accordance with sub-section (4), for
the purpose of the more effective performance by the Special Research Council
of its functions, a research and development plan defining the principal
objectives of the Special Research Council during that period in relation to
research and development in respect of goods generally or goods of a
particular kind or kinds, being research and development of the kind referred
to in paragraph 33 (2) (a), and giving a broad outline of the strategies to be
pursued by the Special Research Council in achieving those objectives.";

   (f)  sub-sections 22 (3) and (4) were omitted and the following sub-section
        were substituted:



"(3) A research and development plan shall not be prepared for the purposes of
sub-section (1) by the Special Research Council until the Special Research
Council has consulted the prescribed organization or each prescribed
organization and any Department or other agency that the Special Research
Council considers appropriate and has had regard to the views (if any)
expressed as a result of those consultations.";

   (g)  sub-section 27 (1) were omitted and the following sub-section were
        substituted:



"(1) The Special Research Council shall develop, and prepare in written form,
for each successive period determined in accordance with sub-section (3), an
annual research and development program that-

   (a)  specifies the particular research and development activities (if any),
        in respect of goods generally or goods of a particular kind or kinds,
        that the Special Research Council proposes to fund; and

   (b)  describes the particular kinds of research and development activities
        (if any) in respect of goods generally or goods of a particular kind
        or kinds, that the Special Research Council is prepared, subject to
        its examination of specific proposals in that respect, to fund,
in whole or in part, during that period, from money provided from the Special
Research Fund, for the purpose of giving effect to the research and
development plan prepared by the Special Research Council that relates, or the
intended research and development plan prepared by the Special Research
Council that will relate, to a period that includes, or will include, that
first-mentioned period.";

   (h)  sub-section 29 (2) were omitted and the following sub-section were
        substituted:



"(2) The Special Research Council may engage persons having suitable
qualifications and experience to advise the Special Research Council in
relation to any purpose in respect of which money may be paid out of the
Special Research Fund.";

   (j)  sub-sections 30 (1), (2) and (3) were omitted and the following
        sub-section were substituted:



"(1) The Special Research Council shall, as soon as practicable after 30 June
in each year, prepare and give to the Minister a report of the operation of
Part IV of this Act during that year that ended on that 30 June.";

   (k)  sub-section 44 (2) were omitted and the following sub-section were
        substituted:



"(2) In appointing persons to be further members of the Selection Committee
for the purpose the performance of the functions of the Selection Committee
referred to in paragraphs 41 (b) and (c) in respect of the Special Research
Council, the Minister shall have regard to the desirability that persons
associated with the production of goods other than goods in respect of which a
prescribed levy or a levy included in a prescribed class of levies is imposed
be members of that Committee.";

   (m)  sub-sections 44 (4) and (5) were omitted;

   (n)  sub-section 44 (7) were omitted and the following sub-section were
        substituted:



"(7) A person who has resigned is eligible for re-appointment.";

   (o)  sub-section 46 (4) were omitted and the following sub-section were
        substituted:



"(4) A person is eligible for nomination for appointment to the Special
Research Council notwithstanding that a proposal for his or her nomination for
appointment to the Special Research Council or to a Research Council has been
rejected at a previous meeting of the Selection Committee or that a nomination
for his or her appointment to the Special Research Council or to a Research
Council has previously been rejected by the Minister.";

   (p)  sub-section 50 (3) were omitted and the following sub-section were
        substituted:



"(3) Where the Minister appoints a person under section 44 in its application
to the Special Research Council to be a member of the Selection Committee, the
Minister may appoint a person to be the deputy of that member."; and

   (q)  sub-section 50 (5) were omitted.