10.—(1) The general rule is that the application must reach the Welsh Ministers within a period of nine months beginning with the first day of the academic year in respect of which it is submitted.
(2) The general rule does not apply where —
(a)one of the events listed in regulation 14 occurs after the first day of the academic year in respect of which the applicant is applying for support, in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers within a period of nine months beginning with the day on which the relevant event occurs;
(b)the applicant is making a separate application for a fee loan under regulation 21 or regulation 22 or a fee contribution loan under regulation 20 or a loan for living costs under regulation 38 or a college fee loan under Schedule 4 or is applying for an additional amount of fee loan under regulation 21(3) or 21(7), an additional amount of fee contribution loan under regulation 20(6) or an additional amount of fee loan under regulation 22(3) or an additional amount of loan for living costs under regulation 50(3) or an additional amount of college fee loan under Schedule 4 paragraph 11(2) in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers not later than one month before the end of the academic year to which the application relates;
(c)the applicant is applying to borrow an additional amount of fee contribution loan under regulation 20(4) or an additional amount of loan for living costs under regulation 50(1), in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers not later than one month before the end of the academic year to which the application relates or within a period of one month beginning with the day on which the applicant receives notice of the increased maximum amount, whichever is the later;
(d)the applicant is applying for a grant under regulation 24, in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers as soon as is reasonably practicable;
(e)the Welsh Ministers consider that having regard to the circumstances of the particular case the time limit should be relaxed, in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers not later than such date as they specify.