EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Funding Rules made under section 60 of the Australian Research Council Act 2001
Variation to Linkage Projects Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2010
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
Subject: Australian Research Council Act 2001
Variation to the Linkage Projects Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2010
Authority
Section 60 of the Australian Research Council Act 2001 (the Act) provides that the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research must approve ARC funding rules.
Purpose and effect
Linkage Projects for funding commencing in 2010 were approved under section 60 of the Act by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, on 4 March 2009.
Linkage Projects is a scheme funded under the Australian Research Council’s National Competitive Grants Program. The scheme supports research and development projects which are collaborative between higher education researchers and other parts of the national innovation system, which are undertaken to acquire new knowledge, and which involve risk or innovation.
A variation to these rules was approved under section 61 of the Act by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr, on 23 April 2009. Details of the approved variation to the Linkage Projects Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2010 are:
1. Throughout the entire document replace ’13 May 2009’ with ’20 May 2009 (page 6 and subsection 6.2.7, 11.5.1, and 12.1.8)
Commencement
Linkage Projects Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2010 shall take effect day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.