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PRIMARY INDUSTRIES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 29

Accountability to representative organisations

    The Chairperson of an R&D Corporation (other than an R&D Corporation to which Division   7 applies) must, as soon as practicable after the Corporation's annual report has been submitted to the Minister, provide copies of the report to each of the Corporation's representative organisations, and make arrangements with each of those organisations to attend the organisation's annual conference, or a meeting of the organisation's executive, for the purpose of enabling:

  (a)   the annual report to be considered; and

  (b)   the Chairperson to deliver an address in relation to:

  (i)   the Corporation's activities in the period to which the report relates; and

  (ii)   the Corporation's intended activities in the financial year following the end of the period; and

  (iii)   in respect of the grain industry and such other primary industry or class of primary industries as is prescribed in the regulations, particulars of sources and expenditure of funds, including:

  (A)   commodity, cross commodity and regional classifications; and

  (B)   funds derived from transfer of assets, debts, liabilities and obligations under section   144; and

  (C)   funds derived from the transfer, under section   151 of this Act, of levies attached to Research Funds under the Rural Industries Research Act 1985 ; and

  (c)   the Chairperson to be questioned in relation to those activities.



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