63At the end of section 9

63  At the end of section 9

Add:

 (8) If:

 (a) an amount (the first amount) is payable by the company under subsection (4); and

 (b) another amount (the second amount) is payable by the Commonwealth to the company under the funding contract;

the Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, set off the whole or a part of the first amount against the whole or a part of the second amount.

 (9) For the purposes of this section, net matching payments for a financial year means the total of the matching payments made to the company during the financial year, less the amount payable by the company under subsection (4) as a condition of those matching payments.