PART 13PAYMENTS, OVERPAYMENTS AND RECOVERY

CHAPTER 3PAYMENT OF GRANTS AND MAINTENANCE LOANS

Payment of grants and maintenance loans85

1

The Welsh Ministers must pay an amount of grant or maintenance loan to an eligible student where it is payable to the student.

2

The Welsh Ministers may pay that amount in instalments or in a single lump sum.

3

Subject to F1paragraph (5), a grant is payable in respect of the four quarters of the academic year.

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5

A grant for travel payable under regulation 66 is payable in respect of each of the qualifying quarters (within the meaning of that regulation).

6

A maintenance loan is payable in respect of three quarters of the academic year.

7

No maintenance loan is payable—

a

in the case of a compressed degree course, in respect of the quarter nominated by the Welsh Ministers;

b

in any other case, in respect of the quarter in which the longest of any vacation occurs.