NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 132 — 30 OCTOBER 2014

accordance with:

a. the Public Finance Act 1989 and the relevant Appropriation Acts for Vote Science and Innovation;

b. the criteria set out in the notice entitled “Description of Funds within Vote Research, Science and Technology” published in the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 31 January 2011, No. 9, page 200; and

c. the criteria specified in this notice and the relevant schedules to this notice.

5. General eligibility criteria for science-led contestable funding proposals—(1) For a proposal to be assessed against the criteria in clause 6, the proposal must:

a. be made by a research organisation or a New Zealand-based legal entity representing a research organisation;

b. not be solely for the benefit of the research organisation or New Zealand-based legal entity which represents this organisation;

c. not be made by a department of the public service as listed in Schedule 1 of the State Sector Act 1988;

d. be for research, science, or technology, or related activities, the majority of which are to be undertaken in New Zealand, unless the Science Board considers that there are compelling reasons to consider the proposal, despite the amount of research, science, or technology, or related activities being proposed to be undertaken overseas;

e. meet any eligibility criteria specified in the relevant schedule to this notice;

f. meet any applicable timing, formatting, system or other similar administrative requirements imposed by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in supplying administrative services to the Science Board under section 10(7) of the Research, Science, and Technology Act 2010; and

g. advise that the proposed funding recipient will, and the Science Board is of the view that it can, adhere to the terms and conditions of funding set out in an investment contract determined by the Science Board.

(2) For the purposes of clause 5.1(a), “research organisation” means an organisation that has internal capability for carrying out research, science or technology, or related activities.

6. Assessment criteria for science-led contestable funding proposals—(1) A proposal that has been assessed as eligible for science-led contestable funding under clause 5 must be assessed having regard to the following criteria:

a. the criteria specified in the relevant schedule to this notice;

b. the extent to which the proposal is likely to achieve the general policy objective of science-led contestable funding;

c. the extent to which the proposal is likely to achieve the specific policy objectives specified in the relevant schedule to this notice;

d. the extent to which the proposal is likely to achieve the objectives of the relevant research fund set out in the notice entitled “Description of Funds within Vote Research, Science and Technology”; and

e. how the proposal contributes to the overall mix of investments in respect of each research fund, including the extent to which the overall mix of investments:

i. is likely to best achieve the objectives referred to in clause 6(b)–(d); and

ii. will ensure that funding is not concurrently provided in respect of any two or more programmes of research, science, or technology, or related activities that are the same or substantially similar (whether those programmes are part of a new proposal or are already being funded); and

iii. will minimise the risk that an applicant will not be able to undertake the relevant programme of research, science, or technology, or related activities because the applicant, or any person involved in delivering the programme, would concurrently be committed to one or more other programmes (whether those programmes are part of a new proposal or are already being funded).

7. Revocation of previous notices—I hereby revoke the notice entitled “Criteria for Proposals for Science-led Contestable Funding and Funding for Smart Ideas in the 2014 Science Investment Round” published in the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 8 November 2013, No. 148, page 4063.

Dated at Wellington this 28th day of October 2014.

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