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are made by the Minister to the Department, as in force from time to time, for the delivery of the GCIF.

Minister means the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

    passenger motor vehicle means a passenger vehicle as defined in section 4.3 of Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule – Definitions and Vehicle Categories) 2005, and variants of such vehicles, to a gross vehicle mass up to 3.5 tonnes.

program refers to the GCIF unless otherwise indicated.

Program Delegate means an employee of the Department who has been empowered by the Minister, or otherwise duly authorised, to carry out the relevant function in respect of the program.

        project means a project that:

         (a)                directly relates to the creation, acquisition, application or commercialisation of knowledge, technology, process materials or products which:

              1. are new or additional to the grantee; and

              2. significantly reduce fuel consumption and/or greenhouse gas emissions of passenger motor vehicles; and

         (b)               involves eligible activities.

proposed project activities mean all eligible activities that are proposed to be undertaken by or on behalf of the applicant.

recipient means an entity that is entitled to receive funding under the program pursuant to an agreement between the entity and the Commonwealth.

 In these directions, 'may' is permissive and not mandatory.

PART 2 – ASSESSMENT AND MERIT RANKING OF APPLICATIONS

Procedure

         5.                                           (a)  Subject to clause 6, the Board will assess eligible applications and provide a merit ranking of those applications to the Program Delegate.
    (b) The Board must consider eligible applications as soon as practicable after those  applications have been provided to the Board.

Board may decline to provide merit ranking

    6.             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.

Assessment of applications

    7.             Subject to clause 6, the Board must assess each eligible application on its merit according to the extent to which the application meets the merit criteria.

Merit criteria

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

         Criterion 1:  The extent of the reduction in passenger motor vehicle fuel consumption               and/or greenhouse gas emissions arising from the proposed project.

    The applicant may indicate merit by demonstrating:

       a)      the extent of improvements in passenger motor vehicle fuel consumption; and/or
       b)     the extent of reduction in passenger motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.

              Criterion 2: The technical merit and extent and calibre of innovation generated in Australia by the proposed project.

    The applicant may indicate merit by demonstrating:

       a)      technical