6Approval of research organizations etc.

#### 6 Approval of research organizations etc. (1) The Board may, by notice published in the Gazette: (a) declare that a specified research organization is, or shall be deemed to have been at or from any time, an approved research organization for the purposes of this Act; (aa) declare that a specified company (being a body or association of persons that is unincorporate) is, or shall be deemed to have been at or from any time (whether before or after the commencement of this paragraph), a recognized company for the purposes of this Act; (b) declare that a specified body in Australia is, or shall be deemed to have been at or from any time, a recognized professional institute for the purposes of this Act; and (c) revoke a declaration made under paragraph (a), (aa) or (b) with effect from the date of publication of the notice of revocation in the Gazette. (1A) The Board may, in making a declaration under paragraph 6(1)(a), specify a field of expertise or an activity in respect of which a specified research organization is an approved research organization, and, in that event, any industrial research and development carried out by the research organization in any field of expertise or activity not specified under this subsection shall be deemed, for the purpose of the definition of eligible contract expenditure in subsection 4(1), not to be industrial research and development. (2) A declaration made under paragraph 6(a) or (b) of the previous Act before the commencement of this Act, being a declaration which has not been revoked under paragraph 6(c) of that Act before the commencement of this Act, shall, on the commencement of this Act, be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be a declaration made by the Board under paragraph (1)(a) or (b) of this section, as the case requires.