109.—(1) Payments of the grant for books, travel and other expenditure, the new part-time course grant and the grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs may be made in such manner as the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate and they may make it a condition of entitlement to payment that the eligible part-time student must provide them with particulars of a bank or building society account in the United Kingdom into which payments may be made by electronic transfer.
(2) Where the Welsh Ministers cannot make a final assessment on the basis of the information provided by the student, they may make a provisional assessment and payment of the grant for books, travel and other expenditure, the new part-time course grant and the grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs.
(3) The Welsh Ministers may pay the grant for books, travel and other expenditure, the new part-time course grant and the grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs in instalments or in a single lump sum.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the Welsh Ministers may pay the grant for books, travel and other expenditure, the new part-time course grant and the grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs at such times as they consider appropriate.
(5) The Welsh Ministers must not pay the first instalment or, where it has been determined not to pay support in instalments, make any payment of the grant for books, travel and other expenditure, the new part-time course grant or the grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs before they have received the declaration under regulation 106(2) to (6) unless an exception referred to in paragraph (6) applies.
(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), an exception applies if—
(a)a grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs under regulation 93 is payable in which case that particular grant may be paid before the Welsh Ministers have received a declaration;
(b)the Welsh Ministers have determined that owing to exceptional circumstances it would be appropriate to make a payment without receiving a declaration.