8.—(1) The Welsh Ministers must pay an Oxbridge college fee loan for which an eligible Oxbridge student qualifies to the college or permanent private hall to which the student is liable to make payment.
(2) The loan must be paid in a single lump sum.
(3) The Welsh Ministers may not pay the loan before—
(a)they have received from the college or permanent private hall—
(i)a request for payment in writing, and
(ii)an attendance confirmation in such form as the Welsh Ministers may specify, and
(b)the period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year to which the loan relates has expired.
(4) The Welsh Ministers may pay an Oxbridge college fee loan without receiving an attendance confirmation if they think that owing to exceptional circumstances it would be appropriate to do so.
(5) In this paragraph, “attendance confirmation” means a confirmation such as is referred to in regulation 87(1).
(6) The Welsh Ministers must not make a payment of an Oxbridge college fee loan in respect of an academic year of a designated Oxbridge course if—
(a)the eligible Oxbridge student ceases to undertake the course before the expiry of the period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year, and
(b)the college or permanent private hall has determined or agreed that the student will not commence undertaking the course in the United Kingdom again during the academic year.
(7) Paragraphs 9 and 10 set out other circumstances in which payment of an Oxbridge college fee loan may not be made or may be withheld.