Payment of grants for books, travel and other expenditure and disabled distance learning students’ allowance
130.—(1) Payments of the grant for books, travel and other expenditure and the disabled distance learning students’ allowance may be made in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate and he may make it a condition of entitlement to payment that the eligible distance learning student must provide him with particulars of a bank or building society account in the United Kingdom into which payments may be made by electronic transfer.
(2) Where the Secretary of State cannot make a final assessment on the basis of the information provided by the student, he may make a provisional assessment and payment of the grant for books, travel and other expenditure and the disabled distance learning students’ allowance.
(3) The Secretary of State may pay the grant for books, travel and other expenditure and the disabled distance learning students’ allowance in instalments.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the Secretary of State may pay the grant for books, travel and other expenditure and the disabled distance learning students’ allowance at such times as he considers appropriate.
(5) The Secretary of State must not pay the first instalment or, where it has been determined not to pay support in instalments, make any payment of the grant for books, travel and other expenditure or the disabled distance learning students’ allowance before he has received a declaration under regulation 124 unless an exception applies.
(6) An exception applies if—
(a)a disabled distance learning students’ allowance is payable in which case that particular grant may be paid before the Secretary of State has received a declaration;
(b)the Secretary of State has determined that owing to exceptional circumstances it would be appropriate to make a payment without receiving a declaration.