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levies).".

Commonwealth's matching payments not to exceed certain proportion of production

  53. Section 32 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting from subsection (1) "subsection (3)" and substituting "subsections (3) and (4)";

  (b) by adding at the end the following subsection:

     "(4) Where levy is attached to an R&D Corporation established in respect of forest industries, the sum of the amounts that, during a particular financial year, are paid to the Corporation under paragraph 30(1)(b), in respect of amounts spent by the Corporation under section 33 for R&D activities in respect of goods to which the levy relates, is not to exceed an amount equal to 0.25% of the amount that the Minister determines to be the gross value of production, for that financial year, of those goods.".

Expenditure of money of R&D Corporations

  54. Section 33 of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by omitting from paragraph (1)(d) "or 35"; and

  (b) by inserting after paragraph (1)(d) the following paragraphs:

          "(da) in payment to the Commonwealth of amounts payable under subsection 18(3) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991; and

          (db) if the Corporation is established in respect of forest industries—in payment of amounts for which the R&D Corporation is liable under subsections 10(8) and 11(9) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991; and".

Insertion of new section

  55. After section 33 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Expenditure of money by an R&D Corporation established in respect of forest industries

"33A. If charge under the Forest Industries Research Import Charge Act 1993 is attached to an R&D Corporation established in respect of forest industries:

    (a) the proportion of the research component of the charge that is spent on R&D activities must be spent on R&D activities that are relevant to forest products of the kind on which charge under that Act is imposed; and

    (b) the proportion referred to in paragraph (a) must be not less than the proportion of the total amounts of all the research components of levies attached to the Corporation and spent by the Corporation on R&D activities.".

Appointment of members

56. Section 98 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (4).

Selecting persons for nomination

57. Section 131 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of subsection (1) the following paragraph:

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PART 12—AMENDMENTS OF THE PRIMARY INDUSTRIES LEVIES AND CHARGES COLLECTION ACT 1991

Principal Act

58. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 199111.

Interpretation

  59. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:

    (a) by inserting after paragraph (j) of the definition of "examinable documents"