29.—(1) The Welsh Ministers may pay the grants for living and other costs and the supplementary grants for which an eligible 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 15(3) to the academic authority for the authority to pay the grant on their behalf.
(3) Where a final assessment of the amount of grants for living and other costs or supplementary grants payable to an eligible 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 student’s allowance before the start of the academic year in respect of which that payment is due.
(5) Where the circumstances in regulation 11(a) or regulation 11(c) apply, the Welsh Ministers must not make any payments of support to a student after the date on which the student stops attending the 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.