The Individual Learning Accounts Wales Regulations 2003

Grants — supplementary provision

9.—(1) Grants are to be paid at such times and in such instalments as the National Assembly for Wales may decide (and in particular the National Assembly for Wales may decide that a grant is not be paid until the individual learning account holder has made or secured the making of any payment towards the costs of the education or training as is necessary).

(2) Grants are to be paid to the person providing the education or training.

(3) Grants may be paid on such terms as the National Assembly for Wales decides and those terms may include terms requiring repayment of whole or part of the grant—

(a) by the person providing the education or training if —

(i) the education or training in question is not provided,

(ii) the individual learning account holder does not undertake the education or training, or

(iii) any other terms on which the grant was paid are not complied with; or

(b) by the individual learning account holder if —

(i) his or her registration is cancelled or at the time of payment of the grant the registration is capable of being cancelled in accordance with regulation 5(2)(a) or (b); or

(ii) it comes to light that the conditions contained in regulation 6(a) or (c) were not satisfied at the time of payment of the grant.

(4) Grants may be paid by the National Assembly for Wales or by a learning account administrator under arrangements made with the National Assembly for Wales and if such arrangements are made the National Assembly for Wales may pay the learning account administrator remuneration or amounts to meet its expenses.