The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2015

Payments - interpretation

68.  In this Part—

(a) “attendance confirmation” (“cadarnhad o bresenoldeb”) means confirmation in writing from the academic authority—

(i) that the eligible student has enrolled for the academic year where the eligible student—

(aa) is applying for support under these Regulations in connection with a designated course for the first time;

(bb) has a disability; and

(cc) is undertaking the course but not attending (regardless of whether the reason for not attending relates to the eligible student’s disability);

(ii) that the eligible student has been present at the institution and begun to attend the course where—

(aa) the student is applying for support under these Regulations in connection with a designated course for the first time;

(bb) the student’s status as an eligible student has not been transferred to the course from another designated course at the same institution; and

(cc) sub-paragraph (i)(cc) does not apply;

(iii) that the eligible student has enrolled for the academic year where the eligible student is applying for support in connection with a designated course—

(aa) other than for the first time; or

(bb) for the first time after the student’s status as an eligible student has been transferred to that course from another course at the same institution;

(b) “payment period” (“cyfnod talu”) means a period in respect of which the Welsh Ministers pay the relevant support under Part 5 or Part 6 or would have paid such support if the eligible student’s period of eligibility had not terminated.