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 (2) The Corporation also has the function of planning, facilitating and participating in one or more of the following:
 (a) the reform, privatisation or abolition of the Corporation;
 (b) the reform, privatisation or abolition of the Dairy Research and Development Corporation;
 (c) the establishment of a new body or bodies to perform any of the following:
 (i) the Corporation's other functions;
 (ii) the Dairy Research and Development Corporation's functions;
 (d) the conferral of any of the functions mentioned in paragraph (c) on an existing body or bodies.

 (3) In subsection (2):

Dairy Research and Development Corporation means the Dairy Research and Development Corporation established by section 8 of the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989.

 (4) The Corporation also has the function of providing funds to another person or body (including the Commonwealth) for expenses or liabilities incurred by that person or body, or by another person or body, in participating in processes of the kind mentioned in subsection (2).

 (5) The Minister may give the Corporation written directions about the performance of its functions under subsections (2) and (4). Section 8 does not apply to a direction given under this subsection.

 (6) The Corporation must comply with any such directions.

 (7) A direction given under subsection (5) may:
 (a) deal with specific matters; or
 (b) set out general policies and require the Corporation to perform the relevant functions consistently with those policies;
or both.

 (8) The Minister may, by writing, delegate the power to give directions under subsection (5) to an Agency Head (within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1999).