Regulation 57 Payment of Loans — conditions of entitlement to payment
The National Assembly may make it a condition of entitlement to payment of any loan that an eligible student must provide it with his or her United Kingdom national insurance number.
Where the National Assembly has imposed a condition under paragraph (1), it must not make any payment of the loan to the eligible student before it is satisfied that the student has complied with that condition.
Despite paragraph (2), the National Assembly may make a payment of loan to an eligible student if it is satisfied that owing to exceptional circumstances it would be appropriate to make such a payment without the eligible student having complied with the condition imposed under paragraph (1).
The National Assembly may at any time require an applicantor eligible student to enter into an agreement to repay a loan by a particular method.
Where the National Assembly has requested an agreement as to the method of repayment under this regulation, it may withhold any payment of a loan until the person provides what has been requested.