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Employees

7. Section 37 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsections:

"(1a) One of the persons so employed is to be employed as the Executive Director of the Research Council.

"(1b) A person must not be employed as the Executive Director unless the person has been selected for that employment by the Managing Director and the Council Chairperson jointly.

"(1c) A person's employment as the Executive Director ends, if it has not already done so, when the person reaches 65.".

Refund periods

8.  Section 50 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection "during" and substituting "for".

Refunds

9. Section 51 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by adding at the end of subsection (1) "or to such other persons (if any) as are prescribed";

  (b) by omitting paragraph (3) (f);

  (c) by omitting from paragraph (3) (g) "$5,000" and substituting "$2,000".

Powers of Corporation in relation to quality assurance for wool

10. Section 74 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraphs (1) (f) and (g) "wool testing facilities" and substituting "laboratories".

Agreements relating to wool research and development etc.

11.  Section 88 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subparagraph (2) (a) (ii) "are" and substituting "is".

Application of Research Fund

12. Section 94 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (e) "the Research Councils Selection Committee in the performance of its functions under subsection 103 (5)" and substituting "a Selection Committee in the performance of its functions under Division 6a of this Part".

Research Council to prepare research and development plans

13. Section 95 of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:

   "(1) The Research Council must, before 1 June 1990, and before each successive 1 June, prepare a written research and development plan relating to the period of 5 years starting on the next 1 July.

   "(1a) A research and development plan must:

       (a) define what, in the Research Council's opinion, should be the principal objectives of the Corporation and the Research Council in relation to wool research and development during the period to which the plan relates; and

       (b) give a broad outline of the strategies that should, in the Research Council's opinion, be pursued by the Corporation and the Research Council in achieving those objectives.";

  (b) by omitting from subsection (2) "(1)" and substituting "(1a)";

  (c) by omitting subsections (4) and (5);

    (d) by omitting from subsection (6) "a period determined in accordance with subsection (5)" and substituting "a research and development plan";

    (e) by omitting from subsection (6) "the research and development plan for