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CLAUSE 10: Payment of Grant

10.1  The lecture fee grant, payable to grant-holders in accordance with Clause 5 (3.1), shall be paid, subject to the maximum lecture fee approved by the Minister for Education and Science, by the Local Authority to the college concerned on receipt of an invoice from the college for the lecture fee for the grant-holder. This shall be subject to the refund in full of the lecture fee if the grant-holder does not register or take up a place, or is in receipt of assistance towards the lecture fee from any other source.

10.2  Subject to the maximum lecture fee approved by the Minister for Education and Science, no lecture fee grant shall exceed the E.U. rate of fee payable in respect of any approved course.

 The maximum fee limit shall apply as follows:

1. All Undergraduate courses not approved under the terms of the Free Fees Initiative and
2. all Post-graduate courses:  €6,270.  

In regard to the Professional Practice Course I and the Professional Practice Course II (formerly known as the Professional & Advanced Course) at the Law Society of Ireland the following arrangements shall apply:

Professional Practice Course I:

1. The tuition fee payable will be subject to 2/3 of the maximum fee limit applicable on commencement of the Professional Practice Course I.
2. Two instalments of the maintenance grant will be payable at the current rate.

Professional Practice Course II:

1. The tuition fee payable will be 1/3 of the maximum fee limit applicable on commencement of the Professional Practice Course II.
2. One instalment of the maintenance grant will be payable at the current rate.

10.3   The Local Authority shall pay the grant-holder's maintenance grant (if any) in three equal instalments, as early as possible in each term, and the individual payable orders shall be addressed to the grant-holder c/o the Bursar's Office of the College.  Local Authorities participating in the test phase migration of student maintenance grant payments to Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) in 2009/10 academic year may select a cohort of students and shall pay the grant-holder’s maintenance grant (if any) in three instalments, as early as possible in each term, by EFT directly into the student’s bank account, on receipt of verification of attendance for the relevant period from an institution selected to participate in the test phase.