The Assembly Learning Grants (European Institutions) (Wales) Regulations 2008

PART 6 PAYMENTS

Payment of grant for fees

37.—(1) The Welsh Ministers must not pay the grant for fees for which a student qualifies until they have received a valid request for payment from the academic authority.

(2) The Welsh Ministers may make the payments of the grant for fees to the academic authority in such instalments and at such times as they consider appropriate.

Payment of grants for living and other costs and supplementary grants

38.—(1) The Welsh Ministers may pay the grants for living and other costs and the supplementary grants for which a student qualifies in such instalments and at such times as they consider appropriate.

(2) The Welsh Ministers may, if they consider it appropriate to do so, pay the grant payable under regulation 20(4) or regulation 22(3) to the relevant academic authority for the authority to pay the relevant grant on their behalf.

(3) Where a final assessment of the amount of grants for living and other costs or supplementary grants payable to a student cannot be made on the basis of the information provided by the student, the Welsh Ministers may make provisional payments of those grants pending the final assessment.

(4) The Welsh Ministers may, if they consider it appropriate to do so, make a payment of disabled students' allowance before the start of the academic year in respect of which that payment is due.

(5) Where the circumstances in regulation 15(a) or regulation 15(c) apply, the Welsh Ministers must not make any payments of support to a student after the date on which he or she stops attending his or her course unless they consider it appropriate to do so taking into account the circumstances of the student’s case.

(6) The Welsh Ministers must not make any payments of support to a student who is absent from the course—

(a) for more than 60 days due to illness; or

(b) for any period for any other reason,

unless they consider that it is appropriate to do so taking into account the circumstances of the student’s case.

Overpayments

39.—(1) The Welsh Ministers may recover any overpayment of grant for fees from the academic authority.

(2) An eligible student must, if required to do so by the Welsh Ministers, repay any amount paid to that student under Part 4 which for whatever reason exceeds the amount of support to which he or she is entitled under Part 4.