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Program Delegate may or CEO may is permissive and not mandatory.

    8.             A reference to include, includes, including, in particular and for example does not limit the generality of the words to which they refer.

PART 2 – ASSESSMENT AND MERIT RANKING OF APPLICATIONS

Procedure

    9.             The Board must assess each eligible application on its merit according to the extent to which the application meets the Merit Criteria.

    10.         Subject to clauses 13 and 16, the Board will assess eligible applications and provide a merit ranking of those applications to the Program Delegate.

    11.         The Board must consider eligible applications as soon as practicable after those applications have been provided to the Board.

    12.         The Board may request additional information from an applicant after the lodgement of an application.

    13.         The Board will assess applications first against the 'Need for funding' merit criterion. Only applications that demonstrate a high level of merit against this criterion may receive a merit ranking.

    14.         The Board may attribute a higher or lower level of relative importance to one or more of the Merit Criteria when assessing applications.

    15.         In providing the Program Delegate with a technical assessment for an application the Board may include advice as to whether the relative merits of an application would warrant:

         (a)                    an amount of funding less than that for which the applicant has applied; and/or

         (b)                   that any approval be subject to particular conditions.

Board may decline to provide merit ranking

    16.         The Board may decide to refuse to provide a merit ranking in respect of a particular applicant if it is not satisfied:

         (a)                    with the level of merit of an eligible application in relation to one or more of the Merit Criteria; or

         (b)                   that the activities described in the eligible application are eligible activities.

Merit Criteria

    17.         The merit of eligible applications must be assessed against the following criteria:

         (a)                    Need for funding;

         (b)                   Commercial plan and potential;

         (c)                    Market opportunity;

         (d)                   Management capability; and

         (e)                    National benefits.

    In assessing applications the Board must consider the merit indicators for each Merit Criterion provided to applicants and the Board by the CEO.

    18.         The CEO may request that the Board provide advice on indicators of merit for some or all of the Merit Criteria.

    19.         The CEO may request that the Board provide advice on setting out any differences in the relative level of importance of Merit Criteria between applications for different eligible activities.

PART 3 – ASSESSMENT OF PROPOSALS FOR VARIATION TO THE AGREED PROJECT

    20.         If a participant has submitted a proposal to the Department for approval of changes to an agreed project, including the addition of new activities, the discontinuance of activities,