12.—(1) Subject to the following paragraphs, a student’s status as an eligible student in connection with a designated course will terminate at the end of the academic year in which the relevant European institution would ordinarily expect the student to complete the course (“period of eligibility”).
(2) The student’s period of eligibility terminates when the student—
(a)withdraws from his or her designated course in circumstances in which the Welsh Ministers will not transfer his or her status as an eligible student in accordance with regulation 13; or
(b)abandons or is expelled from his or her designated course.
(3) The Welsh Ministers may terminate the student’s period of eligibility if they are satisfied that the conduct of the student has shown that he or she is unfitted to receive support.
(4) Where the student’s period of eligibility will terminate before the end of the academic year in which the student will actually complete the course, the Welsh Ministers may, at any time, extend or renew the period of eligibility for such period as they determine.
(5) If the Welsh Ministers are satisfied that an eligible student 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 do one or more of the following—
(a)terminate the student’s period of eligibility;
(b)determine that the student no longer qualifies for any particular type of support or particular amount of support;
(c)treat any support already paid to the student as an overpayment which may be recovered in accordance with regulation 39.