Regulation 80 Payment of fee loans and fee contribution loansF1I1
Northern Ireland
The Department must pay the fee loan or fee contribution loan for which an eligible student qualifies to an institution to which the student is liable to make payment.
The Department may pay the fee loan or fee contribution loan in instalments.
The Department must not pay the fee loan or fee contribution loan before—
it has received a valid request for payment from the academic authority; and
a period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year has expired.
Where assessment of an old system student’s contribution or other matters have delayed the final calculation of the amount of fee contribution loan for which the student qualifies, the Department may make a provisional assessment and payment.
No payment of fee loan or fee contribution loan can be made in respect of a designated course if—
before the expiry of a period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year the eligible student ceases to attend F2or, in the case of a student treated as in attendance under regulation 15, undertake the course; and
the academic authority has determined or agreed that the student will not commence attending F3in the UK or the Republic of Ireland, or, as the case may be, undertaking in the United Kingdom again during the academic year in respect of which the fees are payable or at all.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Regulations revoked (1.5.2007) by The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/195), regs. 1, 4(1)(a) (with reg. 4(3))
- F2
Words in reg. 80(5)(a) inserted (1.5.2007) by The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/195), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 13(a)
- F3
Words in reg. 80(5)(b) inserted (1.5.2007) by The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/195), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 13(b)