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accordance with subsection (7).".

Subsection 26 (7):

Omit "The research and development plan, and a revision of the", substitute "A research and development plan, and a revision of a".

Subsection 26 (8):

  Omit "the research", substitute "a research".

After section 26:

  Insert:

Approval for revised research and development plan to run for 4 years from next 1 July

"26a. (1) Where the Corporation submits a revision of a research and development plan to the Minister for approval, and that plan is in force, the Corporation may also request the Minister's approval for the plan as revised to be in force until the end of 4 years beginning on the next 1 July after the day on which the revision takes effect.

"(2) When making a request under subsection (1), the Corporation must provide the Minister with:

  (a) a statement of its reasons for making the request; and

  (b) such other information as the Minister requests.

  "(3) Where:

  (a) a request is made under subsection (1); and

     (b) the Minister approves a revision of the plan under subsection 26 (7); and

     (c) the Minister is satisfied that it is appropriate for the request under subsection (1) to be granted;

the Minister may, by notice in writing given to the Corporation, give his or her approval for the plan as revised to be in force until the end of 4 years beginning on the next 1 July after the day on which the revision takes effect.".

Subsections 27 (1) and (2):

  Omit the subsections, substitute:

"27. (1) The Corporation must, for each financial year during which a research and development plan is in force, prepare, in written form,

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an annual research and development program that is expressed to relate to that financial year.

"(2) The research and development program for a financial year must:

     (a) specify the broad groupings of horticultural research and development activities that the Corporation proposes to fund, wholly or partly, during the financial year; and

  (b) describe how and to what extent funding those activities will:

         (i) give effect to the research and development plan in force during that financial year; and

         (ii) in particular, pursue the strategies outlined in the research and development plan and help to achieve the objectives described in the research and development plan; and

  (c) provide an estimate of:

         (i) the total amounts likely to be spent by the Corporation in respect of each broad grouping of horticultural research and development activities the Corporation proposes to fund during the financial year; and

         (ii) the total of the amounts likely to be spent by the Corporation during the financial year otherwise than in respect of broad groupings of such horticultural research and development