Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 61

    The regulations may make provision with respect to one or more of the following:

  (a)   notifying an R&D Corporation of the terms of any motion proposed to be moved by an eligible levy payer of the Corporation at an annual general meeting;

  (b)   notifying the Corporation's eligible levy payers of:

  (i)   the day, time and place of an annual general meeting of the Corporation; and

  (ii)   the terms of motions proposed to be moved in the meeting; and

  (iii)   other matters relevant to the conducting of the meeting;

  (c)   the appointment of persons to act as proxies of eligible levy payers of the Corporation in an annual general meeting and the participation of such proxies in the meeting;

  (d)   the method or methods by which a motion or class of motions is to be taken to have been passed at an annual general meeting of the Corporation;

  (e)   if the Corporation is a corporation to which a levy is attached--the method of determining the number of votes that an eligible levy payer of the Corporation who is entitled to vote at an annual general meeting may cast when voting at such a meeting, being a method that has regard to the research component, or marketing component, of any levy (being a levy that is attached to the Corporation) for which the eligible levy payer became liable during, or within 3 months after the end of, the financial year immediately preceding the meeting;

  (f)   the adoption of a procedure relating to voting at annual general meetings that will ensure that amounts of levy for which an eligible levy payer became liable remains confidential.