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5 Functions

(1) Health Workforce Australia has the following functions: (a) to provide financial support for the delivery of clinical training (including simulation training) for the purposes of the health workforce by making payments to or in respect of: (i) eligible students undertaking or proposing to undertake eligible clinical training; or (ii) persons providing eligible clinical training or facilities for eligible clinical training; (b) to provide other support for the delivery of clinical training for the purposes of the health workforce (for example, by providing services for the purpose of matching students with suitable courses providing clinical training); (c) to carry out research, and collect, analyse and publish data or other information, for the purpose of informing the evaluation and development by the Ministerial Conference of policies in relation to the health workforce; (d) to develop and evaluate strategies for development of the health workforce; (e) to advise the Ministerial Conference on matters relating to the health workforce; (f) such other functions (if any) as may be conferred on it by the regulations. (2) A function may be conferred on Health Workforce Australia by regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(f) only if the Ministerial Conference has requested that the function be conferred on Health Workforce Australia. (3) The Minister may make a legislative instrument specifying: (a) the kinds of students who are eligible for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a); and (b) the kinds of clinical training that are eligible for those purposes. (4) Without limiting the generality of subsection (3), the legislative instrument may specify kinds of clinical training by reference to: (a) specified courses or kinds of courses in which clinical training is provided; or (b) specified persons or kinds of persons providing clinical training.