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FOREST AND WOOD PRODUCTS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION REGULATIONS 1993 NO. 209

STATUTORY RULES 1993 No. 209

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Resources

Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989

Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation Regulations

The proposed regulations provide for the establishment of the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation.

Section 8 of the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989 provides for the establishment by regulation of a Research and Development Corporation in respect of a primary industry or class of primary industries and for the Corporation to be known by the name specified in the regulations.

A Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation is to be established in keeping with the Government's intention announced in the National Forest Policy Statement of December 1992.

To enable the selection process to be completed and Directors to be appointed with effect from the date of establishment of the Corporation the regulations need to be made well in advance of their commencement date. Subsection 135(1) of the Act allows the Minister to appoint a person to be a Presiding Member of a Selection Committee where regulations have been made but are not yet in force, and where one or more organisations have been declared under section 7 of the Act to be representative organisations in relation to the proposed Corporation. Appointment of a Presiding Member initiates the process of selecting persons suitable for appointment as Directors of the proposed Corporation.

Details of the proposed regulations are as follows:

Regulation 1 cites the Regulations as the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation Regulations.

Regulation 2 provides that the Regulations commence on 1 January 1994.

Regulation 3 provides definitions of terms.

Regulation 4 declares the establishment of the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation.