The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2015

Time limits

10.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the application must reach the Welsh Ministers no later than the end of the ninth month of the academic year in respect of which it is submitted.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where—

(a) one of the events listed in regulation 15 occurs after the first day of the academic year in respect of which the applicant is applying for support under these Regulations, in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers within a period of nine months beginning with the day on which the relevant event occurs;

(b) the applicant is making a separate application for a fee loan under regulation 19 or regulation 20 or a new fee loan under regulation 21 or a loan for living costs under regulation 44 or a college fee loan under Schedule 4 or is applying for an additional amount of fee loan under regulation 19(4), an additional amount of new fee loan under regulation 21(4), an additional amount of fee loan under regulation 20(3) or an additional amount of loan for living costs under regulation 58(3) or an additional amount of college fee loan under paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 4 in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers not later than one month before the end of the academic year to which the application relates;

(c) the applicant is applying to borrow an additional amount of loan for living costs under regulation 58(1), in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers not later than one month before the end of the academic year to which the application relates or within a period of one month beginning with the day on which the applicant receives notice of the increased maximum amount, whichever is the later;

(d) the applicant is applying for a grant under regulation 25, in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers as soon as is reasonably practicable;

(e) the applicant is making a separate application for a new private institution fee loan or an accelerated graduate entry fee loan, or an additional amount of a new private institution fee loan under regulation 22(4), or an additional amount of an accelerated graduate entry fee loan under regulation 23(4), in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers not later than one month before the end of the academic year to which the application relates;

(f) the Welsh Ministers consider that having regard to the circumstances of the particular case the time limit should be relaxed, in which case the application must reach the Welsh Ministers not later than such date as they specify in writing.