57.—(1) The Welsh Ministers must pay the new fee grant or fee loan for which an eligible student qualifies to an academic authority to which the eligible student is liable to make payment.
(2) The Welsh Ministers may pay the new fee grant or fee loan in such instalments (if any) and at such times as they consider appropriate.
(3) The Welsh Ministers must not pay the new fee grant or fee loan, or any instalment of the new fee grant or fee loan for which an eligible student qualifies unless they have received from the relevant academic authority—
(a)a request for payment; and
(b)confirmation of the eligible student’s attendance on the designated course.
(4) In this regulation “confirmation of the eligible student’s attendance on the designated course” (“cadarnhad o bresenoldeb y myfyriwr cymwys ar y cwrs dynodedig”) means confirmation from the relevant academic authority that the eligible student—
(a)has enrolled on and started attending the designated course, or in the case of a student who is treated as being in attendance under regulation 13(3) and 13(4), started to undertake the designated course, where the confirmation relates to full payment or a first instalment of the new fee grant or fee loan; or
(b)remains enrolled and continues to attend the designated course at the date of confirmation, or in the case of a student who is treated as being in attendance under regulation 13(3) and 13(4), continues to undertake the designated course at the date of confirmation, where the confirmation relates to an instalment of the new fee grant or fee loan other than the first instalment.
(5) Where assessment of an eligible student’s application or other matters have delayed the final calculation of the amount of new fee grant or fee loan for which the eligible student qualifies, the Welsh Ministers may make a provisional assessment and payment.
(6) Where an eligible student ceases to attend or undertake a designated course during the academic year and the academic authority has determined or agreed that the student will not return during that academic year, the academic authority must inform the Welsh Ministers as soon as is practicable of the eligible student’s departure from the designated course.