{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/312",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Payment",
  "text": "(1) The Department must pay the college fee loan for which a qualifying student qualifies to the college or permanent private hall to which the student is liable to make payment.\n(2) The Department must pay the college fee loan in one lump sum.\n(3) The Department must not pay the college fee loan before—\n(a) it has received a valid request for payment from the college or permanent private hall; and\n(b) a period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year has expired.\n(4) The college or permanent private hall is required to send an attendance confirmation (as defined in regulation 82(6)) to the Department and the Department must not pay the college fee loan in respect of the academic year until it has received that confirmation unless it determines that owing to exceptional circumstances, it would be appropriate to make a payment without receiving an attendance confirmation.\n(5) The Department must not make a payment of college fee loan in respect of a qualifying course if—\n(a) before the expiry of a period of three months beginning with the first day of the academic year the qualifying student ceases to attend the course; and\n(b) the college or permanent private hall has determined or agreed that the student will not commence attending again during the academic year in respect of which the college fees are payable or at all.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 17 in operation at 1.9.2006, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/312/schedule/5/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:45:48.766711+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}