R & D Start Program (Payments) Direction 1997 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Industry Research and Development Act 1986

R&D Start Program (Payments) Direction 1997

I, JOHN COLINTON MOORE, Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism,      acting under subsection 20 (1) of the Industry Research and Development                Act 1986, give the following direction to the Industry Research and Development Board.

Dated Tenth June 1997

JOHN MOORE

Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism

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Citation

1.    This direction may be cited as the R&D Start Program (Payments)      Direction 1997.

Commencement

2.    This instrument commences on the day on which particulars of the     instrument are published in the Gazette.

[NOTE: For the publication of particulars, see s. 20 (3) of the the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.]

Interpretation

3.    In this direction:

“R&D Start Program” has the meaning given by the R&D Start Program

(policies and practices of the IR&D Board) Direction No.1 of 1996.

Payments

4.    The Board may authorise payments under the R&D Start Program to               be made in:

(a)the financial year commencing 1 July 1997; and

(b)subsequent financial years for which the R&D Start Program                receives appropriations.    

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