Payment of fee loans99

1

The Department must pay the fee loan for which an eligible student qualifies to an institution to which the student is liable to make payment.

2

The Department may pay the fee loan in instalments.

3

The Department must not pay the fee loan or instalment of fee loan until the Department has received from the academic authority—

a

a request for payment; and

b

confirmation (in such form as may be required by the Department) of the student’s attendance on the course for the period to which the instalment relates.

4

In this regulation, “confirmation of the student’s attendance” means confirmation from the academic authority that the student–

a

has enrolled for the academic year and has begun to attend the course for that academic year, where the confirmation relates to payment of the fee loan or the first instalment of the fee loan for the academic year; or

b

remains enrolled and continues to attend the course, where the confirmation relates to payment of an instalment of the fee loan other than the first instalment.

5

The academic authority must inform the Department if a student ceases to attend the designated course during the academic year.