PART 12SUPPORT FOR PART-TIME COURSES

Payment of new part-time fee loan120

1

The Welsh Ministers must pay the new part-time fee loan for which a new eligible part-time student qualifies in respect of an academic year of a designated part-time course to an academic authority to which the new eligible part-time student is liable to make payment.

2

The Welsh Ministers may pay the new part-time fee loan in such instalments (if any) and at such times as they consider appropriate.

3

The Welsh Ministers must not pay the new part-time fee loan or any instalment of that loan unless they have received from the relevant academic authority—

a

a request for payment; and

b

a declaration under regulation 113(2) to (6).

4

The Welsh Ministers may make provisional payments under this regulation in such cases as they deem appropriate.