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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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in the service of the Crown specified in the Schedule below to take statutory declarations under the said Act.

Schedule

Department of Internal Affairs

Link Clerk, Dunedin.

Advisory Officer, Community Development, Dunedin.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of May 1993.

D. A. M. GRAHAM, Minister of Justice.

(Adm. 3/28/3/17)

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Securities Commission Act 1978

Reappointment and Appointment of Members of the Security Commission

Pursuant to section 11 of the Securities Commission Act 1978, as amended by sections 2 and 4 of the Securities Amendment Act 1986, Her Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

Judith Marjorie Potter, barrister and solicitor of Auckland as a member of the Securities Commission for a period of 3 years on and from 1 May 1993, and appoint

John Michael Robson, company executive of Wellington as a member of the Securities Commission for a period of 5 years on and from 1 May 1993.

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of February 1993.

D. A. M. GRAHAM, Minister of Justice.

(Adm. 3-68)

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Research, Science and Technology

Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Act 1990

Direction to Allocate Funds Under the Ministerial Scheme “Technology for Business Growth” for the 1992–93 Financial Year

To: Dr I. Axford, Chairperson of The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, P.O. Box 12-240, Wellington.

Dear Dr Axford — In accordance with section 8 of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Act 1990, I direct the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology to allocate funds under the Ministerial Scheme “Technology for Business Growth” for the 1992–93 financial year.

The funds allocated are intended to develop, or assist in the development of, skills relating to research, science and technology, and to promote or facilitate the application of the results or research and technological developments. Annex A details the specific nature, objectives, criteria, and funding levels applying to the Scheme, and nominates the agency that is to monitor the Scheme. The Foundation is to report to me on the operation of the Scheme within 2 months of the end of the 1992–93 financial year. The report should describe the specific projects to which funds have been allocated and should provide an assessment of the degree to which these allocations have contributed to the specific objectives of the Scheme. The report should also provide an assessment of the Scheme in relation to the performance measures identified for the allocation of funds on behalf of the Crown for technological innovation in the Foundation’s 1992–93 Corporate Plan.

Monitoring action by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology shall comprise a commentary on the report provided by the Foundation.

This instruction relates only to the operation of the Scheme for the 1992–93 financial year. A more comprehensive framework for existing and proposed Ministerial Schemes will be developed and notified to you in due course, for the operation of Schemes for the 1993–94 financial year.

In accordance with the Foundation Act, this notice will be published in the Gazette and a copy laid before the House of Representatives.

Annex A. Ministerial Scheme—Technology for Business Growth Scheme

The Nature of the Scheme

The Technology for Business Growth Scheme (TBG) is intended to develop, or assist in the development of, skills relating to research, science and technology and to promote or facilitate the application of the results of research or technological developments.

The TBG assists businesses accessing technology by funding the secondment of scientists and/or technologists into companies and by part funding co-operative research projects between small companies and research agencies. Suitable research agencies may be any organisation whose principal activity is technological research and development. These organisations are:

• Crown Research Institutes
• Government Departments
• Research Associations
• Polytechnics
• Universities

The Objectives of the Scheme

The goals of the Technology for Business Growth Scheme are to improve the technological performance and innovation of New Zealand business and industry by:

• increasing the quantity and quality of R&D in industry;
• promoting the R&D of new, technology-based products, processes and services with commercial potential;
• encouraging business growth and international competitiveness through development of technology in industry; and
• encouraging co-operation between research institutions and industry in the development, exploitation and transfer of technology.

The mechanisms supported are staff secondments from suitable research institutions or matching finance when the project is not best pursued by secondment.

The Foundation is directed to call for proposals under this scheme.

Funding for the Scheme

The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology will be appropriated $4.3 million through Vote : Research, Science and Technology for the 1992–93 financial year which will be disbursed to participants through the allocative processes adopted by the Foundation.

Future appropriations for this scheme will be dependent on the annual budgetary process of Government.