83.—(1) Where a tuition fee loan is payable to an eligible student, the Welsh Ministers must pay that amount to the academic authority to which the student is liable to make payment.
(2) The Welsh Ministers may pay that amount in instalments or in a single lump sum.
84.—(1) The Welsh Ministers may not make any payment under regulation 83 unless they have received from the academic authority—
(a)a request for payment in respect of the eligible student, and
(b)confirmation in writing that the student is undertaking the designated course.
(2) The confirmation referred to in paragraph (1)(b) must—
(a)in relation to the first (or only) payment in respect of the course, be confirmation that the student has enrolled on and started to undertake the present course;
(b)in relation to any subsequent payments in respect of the course, be confirmation that the student remains enrolled on and continues to undertake the course.