PART 9N.I.PAYMENTS

CHAPTER 1N.I.INTERPRETATION OF PART 9

InterpretationN.I.

93.  In this Part—

(a)“attendance confirmation” means—

(i)confirmation from the academic authority that the student has enrolled for the academic year where—

(aa)the student is applying for support in connection with a designated course for the first time;

(bb)the student has a disability; and

(cc)the student is undertaking the course but not attending (regardless of whether the reason for not attending relates to the student’s disability);

(ii)confirmation from the academic authority that the student has been present at the institution and begun to attend the course where—

(aa)the student is applying for support in connection with a designated course for the first time;

(bb)the student’s status as an eligible student has not been transferred to the course from another designated course at the same institution; and

(cc)sub-paragraph (i)(cc) does not apply;

(iii)confirmation from the academic authority that the student has enrolled for the academic year where—

(aa)the student is applying for support in connection with a designated course other than for the first time; or

(bb)the student is applying for support in connection with a designated course for the first time after the student’s status as an eligible student has been transferred to that course from another course at the same institution;

(b)“payment period” means a period in respect of which the Department pays the relevant support under Part 5 or Part 6 or would have paid such support if the eligible student’s period of eligibility had not terminated.

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