PART 2ELIGIBILITY
Period of eligibility5
1
A student’s status as an eligible student is retained in connection with a designated course until the status terminates in accordance with this regulation or regulation 3.
2
The period for which an eligible student retains the status referred to in paragraph (1) is the “period of eligibility”.
3
Subject to the following paragraphs and regulation 3, an eligible student’s (“A’s”) period of eligibility terminates—
a
at the end of the academic year in which the ordinary period of registration of A’s designated course ends; or
b
when A’s initial thesis in relation to that course is submitted to the relevant academic authority,
whichever is the earlier.
4
A’s period of eligibility terminates when—
a
A withdraws from A’s designated course in circumstances where the Welsh Ministers are not obliged under regulation 6 to transfer A’s status as an eligible student to another course; or
b
A abandons or is expelled from A’s designated course.
5
The Welsh Ministers may terminate the period of eligibility where A has shown by A’s conduct that A is unfitted to receive a postgraduate doctoral degree loan.
6
If the Welsh Ministers are satisfied that A has failed to comply with any requirement to provide information under these Regulations or has provided information which is inaccurate in a material particular, the Welsh Ministers may take such of the following actions as they consider appropriate in the circumstances—
a
terminate A’s period of eligibility;
b
determine that A no longer qualifies for a postgraduate doctoral degree loan;
c
treat any postgraduate doctoral degree loan paid to the student as an overpayment which may be recovered under regulation 18.
7
Where the period of eligibility terminates before the end of the academic year in which a student completes the designated course, the Welsh Ministers may, at any time, renew the period of eligibility for such period as they determine.