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5.—(1) Payment of an allowance for each academic year is conditional on the following—
(a)receipt of an application in such form as the Scottish Ministers may require by such date as they may determine in respect of that year, and different dates may be determined by them in respect of different courses,
(b)that application must include an undertaking by the applicant to repay to the Scottish Ministers any amount of which they request repayment following a revisal in terms of regulation 4(4) (amount of allowances), and
(c)that application must include acceptance by the applicant that any sum in respect of which the holder has given an undertaking in terms of paragraph (1)(b) and which falls to be repaid following a revisal in terms of regulation 4(4) may be recovered by the Scottish Ministers in one or more of the ways specified in paragraph (2).
(2) The Scottish Ministers may recover any sum in respect of which the holder has given an undertaking in terms of paragraph (1)(b) and which falls to be repaid following a revisal in terms of regulation 4(4) in one or more of the following ways as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate in all the circumstances—
(a)by subtracting the amount of which the Scottish Ministers request repayment following revisal in terms of regulation 4(4) from the amount of any other allowance payable under these Regulations for which the student is eligible in respect of any other academic year,
(b)by taking such other action for the recovery of the amount of which the Scottish Ministers request repayment following revisal in terms of regulation 4(4) as is available to them.
(3) The Scottish Ministers may treat an application received after any date determined for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) as having been received by that date where they consider that, having regard to the circumstances of the particular case, it should be so treated.
(4) Every allowance is to be held subject to the following requirements—
(a)the holder must comply with the requirements of the course of education in respect of which the allowance is awarded,
(b)the Scottish Ministers must be satisfied as to the conduct and progress of the holder,
(c)the holder must provide the Scottish Ministers with such information and such documents as they may from time to time require to enable them to exercise their functions under this Part, and
(d)the holder must repay to the Scottish Ministers any sum in respect of which the holder has given an undertaking in terms of paragraph (1)(b) and which falls to be repaid following a revisal in terms of regulation 4(4).
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