(1) The Commonwealth Scholarships Guidelines may provide for * Commonwealth scholarships.
Directly - paid standard Commonwealth scholarships
(1A) Without limiting subsection (1), the Commonwealth Scholarships Guidelines may provide for the following matters in relation to directly - paid standard * Commonwealth scholarships:
(a) the kinds of scholarships that are to be directly - paid standard Commonwealth scholarships;
(b) the eligibility requirements for each kind of scholarship;
(c) how the amounts of scholarships are to be determined;
(d) the indexation of amounts of scholarships, using the method of indexation set out in Part 5 - 6;
(e) how scholarships are to be paid;
(f) the conditions that apply to a particular kind of scholarship;
(g) the amount, being part of the amount referred to in section 46 - 40 for a year, that will be spent on each kind of scholarship in that year;
(h) the indexation of such an amount for subsequent years, using the method of indexation set out in Part 5 - 6;
(i) the maximum number of students that a particular higher education provider can select to receive a particular kind of scholarship for a particular year;
(j) requirements to be complied with by selection policies maintained by higher education providers;
(k) information that higher education providers are to give the Minister.
Other Commonwealth scholarships
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Commonwealth Scholarships Guidelines may provide for the following matters in relation to indirectly - paid standard * Commonwealth scholarships and postgraduate research Commonwealth scholarships:
(a) the kinds of scholarships that are to be indirectly - paid standard Commonwealth scholarships;
(b) the kinds of scholarships that are to be postgraduate research Commonwealth scholarships;
(c) which students are eligible for each kind of scholarship;
(e) the conditions that apply to each kind of scholarship;
(f) how the amounts of grants to an * eligible scholarship provider are to be determined;
(g) the amount, being part of the amount referred to in section 46 - 40 for a year, that will be spent on each kind of scholarship in that year;
(h) the indexation of such an amount for subsequent years, using the method of indexation set out in Part 5 - 6;
(i) how grants to providers are to be made;
(j) how providers are to determine the amount of each scholarship;
(k) the indexation of amounts of scholarships, using the method of indexation set out in Part 5 - 6;
(l) how providers are to pay scholarships;
(m) information that providers are to give the Minister, the * Chief Executive Centrelink or a Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Centrelink) Act 1997 );
(n) information that providers are to give to:
(i) the Repatriation Commission; or
(ii) the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission; or
(iii) the Secretary, or an employee, of the Department administered by the Minister who administers the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 ; or
(iv) the Secretary, or an employee, of the Department administered by the Minister who administers the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 .