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BARLEY RESEARCH ACT 1980 No. 168 of 1980 - SECT 14

Agreements for carrying out of research
14. (1) The Minister or an authorized officer may, on behalf of the
Commonwealth, enter into agreements for the purposes of, or for the purposes
in connection with, any research to be done or performed with moneys provided
in whole or in part out of moneys standing to the credit of the account kept
in accordance with sub-section 12(1).

(2) Without limiting the generality of sub-section (1), an agreement made with
a person under that sub-section in relation to moneys provided out of the
Research Account may-

   (a)  provide for the moneys to which the agreement relates and any property
        acquired with those moneys or with moneys that include those moneys to
        be used only for purposes specified in the agreement and for the
        payment by the person to the Commonwealth for the purpose of the
        Research Account, in the event of any of those moneys or any of that
        property being used for a purpose not specified in the agreement, of
        an amount equal to the whole, or such part as the Minister determines,
        of those moneys;

   (b)  provide for the payment by the person to the Commonwealth for the
        purposes of the Research Account of an amount equal to the whole, or
        such part as the Minister determines, of any net income derived by the
        person from-

        (i)    property acquired with moneys to which the agreement relates or
               with moneys that include those moneys; or

        (ii)   patents for inventions made, or any other property acquired, in
               the course of carrying out research or doing any other act or
               thing with those moneys or with moneys that include those
               moneys, or for the assignment by the person to the Commonwealth
               of any property referred to in sub-paragraph (i), of any
               patents for inventions or other property referred to in
               sub-paragraph (ii) or of any such invention or of any interest
               that he may have in any such invention; and

   (c)  provide for the payment by the person to the Commonwealth for the
        purposes of the Research Account, in the event of the disposal
        otherwise than to the Commonwealth of any property of a kind referred
        to in paragraph (b), of an amount equal to the whole, or such part as
        the Minister determines-

        (i)    in the case of a disposal by way of sale or assignment for
               value- of the net proceeds of the sale or assignment; and

        (ii)   in any other case-of the value of the property as determined by
               the Minister. 


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