Overpayments of a postgraduate doctoral degree loan
18.—(1) Any overpayment of a postgraduate doctoral degree loan is recoverable by the Welsh Ministers from—
(a)the institution or third party which received the monies of the postgraduate doctoral degree loan where payment was made to such institution or third party; or
(b)the student who received the postgraduate doctoral degree loan.
(2) A student must, if so required by the Welsh Ministers, repay any amount of the postgraduate doctoral degree loan paid to the student or paid in respect of the student, which for whatever reason exceeds the amount of loan to which the student is entitled.
(3) An overpayment of a postgraduate doctoral degree loan may be recovered from a student under paragraph (1)(b) in whichever one or more of the following ways the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate in all the circumstances—
(a)by subtracting the overpayment from any amount of the postgraduate doctoral degree loan which remains to be paid to or in respect of the student;
(b)by subtracting the overpayment from any kind of grant or loan payable to the student from time to time pursuant to regulations made by the Welsh Ministers under section 22 of the 1998 Act;
(c)by requiring the student to repay the postgraduate doctoral degree loan in accordance with regulations made under section 22 of the 1998 Act;
(d)by taking such other action for the recovery of an overpayment as is available to them.