44Provision of training facilities

44 Provision of training facilities

(1) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, establish a scheme, to be known as the National Service Vocational Training Scheme, for the vocational training of such persons or classes of persons, being persons who have been discharged, otherwise than by a dishonourable discharge, from the Regular Army Supplement immediately after having rendered national service, as the Minister determines. (1A) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, establish a scheme, to be known as the Former Regular Servicemen Vocational Training Scheme, for the vocational training of former regular servicemen. (2) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, make arrangements with any State for the use, for the purposes of this Part, of any services and facilities of the State in relation to vocational training. (3) Any such arrangement may provide for the extension of any such services and facilities of the State and for the use of those services and facilities as extended in pursuance of the arrangement. (4) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, provide, or arrange for the provision of, facilities in connexion with any such scheme. (5) Subject to such conditions as the Minister determines, the Commonwealth shall pay to persons undergoing training under this Part such allowances and expenses as the Minister determines. (6) The Commonwealth may, subject to such conditions as the Minister determines, pay tuition and other like fees on behalf of persons undergoing training under this Part. (7) The Commonwealth may, subject to such conditions as the Minister determines, provide or supply to persons undergoing training under this Part, or arrange for the provision or supply to such persons, of such books, equipment, appliances and tools of trade as are necessary in connexion with the training.