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employees; and

  (b) promotion and transfer of employees; and

  (c) training and staff development for employees; and

  (d) conditions of service of employees;

'policy action', in relation to the equal employment opportunity program of the Corporation, means action by the Corporation to do all of the following things:

     (a) confer responsibility for the development and implementation of the program (including a continuous review of the program) on a person having sufficient authority and status within the management of the Corporation to enable the person properly to develop and implement the program;

     (b) examine policies and practices of the Corporation, in relation to employment matters, to identify:

         (i) any policies or practices that constitute discrimination against women or persons in designated groups; and

         (ii) any patterns (whether ascertained statistically or otherwise) of lack of equality of opportunity for women or persons in designated groups;

  (c) set:

       (i) the objectives to be achieved by the program; and

         (ii) the quantitative and other indicators against which the effectiveness of the program is to be assessed;

         'woman' means a member of the female sex irrespective of age.

"(2) A reference in the definition of 'equal employment opportunity program' to discrimination in relation to employment matters does not include a reference to discrimination that:

     (a) is essential for the effective performance of the duties to which the employment matters relate; and

     (b) is not unlawful under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 or the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.".

Exotic Animal Disease Control Act 1989

Paragraph 24 (1) (b):

  Omit the paragraph, substitute:

      "(b) the Meat Research Corporation (being the corporation established by the Meat Research Corporation Act 1985);".

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Paragraph 24 (3) (e):

Omit "Australian Meat and Live-stock Research and Development Corporation", substitute "Meat Research Corporation".

   Horticultural Research and Development Corporation Act 1987

Paragraph 6 (d):

  Omit "and" (last occurring).

After paragraph 6 (d):

  Insert:

       "(da) to facilitate the dissemination, adoption and commercialisation of the results of horticultural research and development; and".

Paragraph 7 (1) (f):

  Omit "and" (last occurring).

After paragraph 7 (1) (f):

  Insert:

      "(fa) acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property for the purposes of this Act;

   (fb) join in the formation of a company; and".

Subsection 7 (2):

  Omit the subsection, substitute:

"(2) Where the Corporation holds a controlling interest in a company, the Corporation must ensure the company does not do anything that the Corporation is not itself empowered to do.".

Subsections 19 (3), (4) and (5):

  Omit the subsections.

After subsection 25 (5):

  Insert:

"(5a) The Corporation may, subject to this section, regulate proceedings at its meeting as it considers appropriate.

"(5b) Without limiting subsection (5a), the Corporation may permit a member to participate in a meeting by