Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ACT 1992 - SECT 18

  (1)   After receiving a corporate plan for a period, the Minister must either:

  (a)   approve the plan; or

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

  (2)   If the Minister requests the CEO to give the Minister a different corporate plan, the CEO must do so as soon as reasonably practicable.

  (3)   A corporate plan comes into force:

  (a)   immediately after the end of the period covered by the immediately preceding corporate 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.

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