Industry Research and Development (Industry Innovation and Science Australia - Industry Growth Program) Direction No.1 2024 (Cth)

Industry Research and Development (Industry Innovation and Science Australia – Industry Growth Program) Direction No.1 2024 I, Ed Husic, Minister for Industry and Science, make the following direction to Industry Innovation and Science Australia.

Dated: 12 April 2024

Ed Husic Minister for Industry and Science

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Assessment of eligible applications 6 Relationship to object of Act

1 Name This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Industry Innovation and Science Australia - Industry Growth Program) Direction No.1 2024.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument The day that it is made.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under subsection 19(1) of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

4 Definitions In this instrument: Act means the Industry Research and Development Act 1986. Eligible Application means an application for funding under the Industry Growth Program that meets the eligibility criteria in the relevant Grant opportunity guidelines. Grant opportunity guidelines means guidelines that approved by the Minister for the operation and administration of the Industry Growth Program, including (i) the Industry Growth Program: Early‑Stage Commercialisation Grant Opportunity Guidelines, and (ii) the Industry Growth Program: Commercialisation and Growth Grant Opportunity Guidelines. IISA means the body established by section 6 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986, known as Industry Innovation and Science Australia. Industry Growth Program means the program established by the Industry Research and Development (Industry Growth Program) Instrument 2023. Priority area of the Australian economy means those areas of the Australian economy declared by a legislative instrument to be a priority area of the Australian economy for the purposes of section 6 of the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation Act 2023. SME has the same meaning as in the Grant opportunity guidelines.