4 Academic progression
1 Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 5, the Welsh Ministers must not pay an Assembly Learning Grant to a student in respect of the Academic Year 2009/2010 or part of that academic year unless they are satisfied on reasonable grounds that the period of study concerned involves academic progression for the student in comparison with study undertaken by the student in previous academic years.
2 The Welsh Ministers may pay an Assembly Learning Grant to a student for a repeated academic year if that year is a repeat of a preceding academic year that the student was unable to complete because of compelling personal reasons.