Payment of college fee loans
104.—(1) The Secretary of State must pay the college fee loan for which a qualifying student qualifies to the college or permanent private hall to which the student is liable to make payment.
(2) The Secretary of State must pay the college fee loan in a single instalment.
(3) The Secretary of State must not pay the college fee loan before—
(a)he has received a request for payment from the college or permanent private hall; and
(b)a period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year has expired.
(4) A college or permanent private hall is required to send an attendance confirmation to the Secretary of State.
(5) The Secretary of State must not pay the college fee loan until he has received an attendance confirmation from the relevant college or permanent private hall unless he determines that owing to exceptional circumstances, it would be appropriate to make a payment without receiving that confirmation.
(6) The Secretary of State must not make a payment of college fee loan in respect of a qualifying course if—
(a)before the expiry of a period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year the qualifying student ceases to attend or, in the case of a student who is treated as in attendance under regulation 82, undertake the course; and
(b)the college or permanent private hall has determined or agreed that the student will not commence attending or, as the case may be, undertaking in the United Kingdom again during the academic year in respect of which the college fees are payable or at all.