Payment
12.—(1) The Welsh Ministers must pay the college fee loan for which a qualifying student qualifies to the college or permanent private hall to which the student is liable to make payment.
(2) The Welsh Ministers must pay the college fee loan in a single lump sum.
(3) The Welsh Ministers must not pay the college fee loan before—
(a)they have received a request for payment in writing from the college or permanent private hall which the Welsh Ministers consider to be a valid request; and
(b)a period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year has expired.
(4) A college or permanent private hall is required to send an attendance confirmation to the Welsh Ministers in such form as the Welsh Ministers may require.
(5) The Welsh Ministers must not pay the college fee loan in respect of the academic year until they have received an attendance confirmation from the relevant college or private hall unless they determine that owing to exceptional circumstances it would be appropriate to make a payment without receiving that confirmation.
(6) In this paragraph “attendance confirmation” has the same meaning as in regulation 70.
(7) The Welsh Ministers must not make a payment of college fee loan in respect of a qualifying course if—
(a)before the expiry of a period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year the qualifying student ceases to attend or in the case of a student who is treated as in attendance under paragraph 4, undertake the course; and
(b)the college or permanent private hall has determined or agreed that the student will not commence attending or, as the case may be, undertaking the course in the United Kingdom again during the academic year in respect of which the college fees are payable or at all.