Regulation 71 Payment of support to eligible part-time students
The National Assembly must pay support under regulation 66 and under regulation 65(1)(b) and in such instalments (if any) and at such times as it considers appropriate and in the exercise of its functions under this paragraph it may, where a final assessment cannot be made on the basis of the information provided by the student, make a provisional assessment of the support payable.
Payments may be made in such manner as the National Assembly considers appropriate and it may make it a condition of entitlement to payment that the eligible part-time student must provide it with particulars of a bank or building society account in the United Kingdom into which payments may be made by electronic transfer.
The National Assembly must not pay the first instalment or, where it has been determined not to pay support in instalments, make any payment of the grant for books, travel and other expenditure or the disabled part-time students' grant for living costs under regulation 66 before it has received the declaration referred to in regulation 67(2) unless an exception applies.
An exception applies if—
a disabled part-time students' grant for living costs under regulation 66 is payable in which case that particular grant may be paid before the National Assembly has received a declaration;
the National Assembly has determined that owing to exceptional circumstances it would be appropriate to make a payment without receiving a declaration.