The Commonwealth must pay to declared recipient bodies and statutory recipient bodies amounts connected with various levies and charges collected under rules made under the Collection Act.

The bodies must spend the payments on various activities, including research and development activities and marketing activities for the benefit of primary industries.

The Commonwealth must also make matching payments to the bodies, based on amounts of expenditure on research and development activities or certain other activities by the bodies and on gross value of production amounts.

The bodies must spend the matching payments on various activities, including research and development activities for the benefit of primary industries.

The Minister may enter into funding agreements with the bodies.