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or more of the following fields of activity:

  (a) wool growing or harvesting;

  (b) wool processing, including the manufacture of wool products;

  (c) wool research and development or other research and development;

    (d) the administration or management of wool research and development or other research and development;

  (e) marketing of wool or other commodities;

  (f) economics;

  (g) transport, storage or distribution;

  (h) finance;

  (j) science or technology, including technology transfer;

  (k) business management.

"(2) In selecting persons for nomination, the Selection Committee must choose from the available candidates persons who will best ensure that the

Council members collectively possess qualifications and experience in the fields of activity referred to in subsection (1).

"(3) The Presiding Member must consult the Council Chairperson on the skills and qualities of members that should be reflected in the membership of the Research Council.

"(4) A person who is, or who has at any time been, a member of a particular Selection Committee must not be nominated by that Selection Committee.

"(5) A person may be nominated by a Selection Committee even though a proposal for the person's nomination has been rejected at a previous meeting of the Committee or a nomination for the person's appointment to the Research Council has previously been rejected by the Minister.

Minister may reject nomination

"109e. (1) If the Minister is not satisfied that a person nominated for appointment is suitable, the Minister may, by written notice given to the Selection Committee, reject the nomination and request the Committee to make a further nomination within the period specified in the notice.

"(2) For the purposes of section 109b, the further request is to be taken to be a notice under section 109a, and the period specified in the notice is to be taken to be the period specified in a notice under section 109a.

Abolition of Selection Committee

"109f. Where:

    (a) the Minister has appointed to the Research Council a person nominated by the Selection Committee; and

    (b) the Committee has not made any nominations for appointment that have yet to be accepted or rejected by the Minister; and

    (c) there are no outstanding matters in a request by the Minister under section 109a or 109e that are still to be dealt with by the Committee;

the Committee is abolished by force of this section.

Selection Committee procedures etc.

"109g. Sections 34, 35 and 36 apply to a Selection Committee established under section 109b in the same way as they apply to a Selection Committee established under section 29.".

Annual report of Research Council

21.  Section 110 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:

"(4) The Minister must cause the report to