D2. Additional Definitions for Part D

D2.1 Exempt Archive and Public Record Office means a non-profit organisation which holds a significant national, state or regional collection of data or documents for the purposes of public information and record-keeping and available for the purposes of research.

D2.2 Exempt Charity means an organisation which meets the definition of a charity under the Charities Act 2013.

D2.3 Exempt Herbarium[2] means a non-profit, established institution in the service of society, which acquires, conserves, and researches preserved and labelled plant specimens, arranged to allow easy access and archival storage with a mission to preserve and document the diversity of plants.

D2.4 Exempt Museum and Collecting Organisation[3] means a non-profit, established institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.

D2.5 Exempt Non-Profit Organisation means an organisation which meets the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) definition of a non-profit organisation – an organisation that does not operate for the profit or gain of its individual members, either directly or indirectly. This applies both while the organisation is operating and when it winds up. This definition is available at www.ato.gov.au.

D2.6 Exempt Start-up means a company that is commercialising research and development (R&D) activities and has an average annual revenue over the previous two years of income that does not exceed $5 million per year. The start-up must have a majority of its employees (by number) and assets (by value) inside Australia.

D2.7 LP means the Linkage Projects scheme.

D2.8 Project Leader means the first-named CI on a Proposal.