{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-for-disabled-postgraduate-students-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-for-disabled-postgraduate-students-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/285",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-grants-for-disabled-postgraduate-students-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Applications for grant",
  "text": "(1) A person shall apply for a grant in respect of an academic year of a designated course by completing and submitting to the Department an application in such form as it may require, but which shall include a declaration signed by the student that:\n(a) the particulars given in the form are correct to the best of his knowledge and belief;\n(b) he will notify the Department (or if an Education and Library Board is exercising functions in relation to his application by virtue of a determination under Article 4(1)(a) of the Order he will notify them) of any change in them which might affect his eligibility for a grant; and\n(c) he will if required to do so repay to the Department any amount paid to him which for whatever reason exceeds the amount of grant to which he is entitled under these Regulations.\n(2) An applicant shall demonstrate his eligibility for a grant by providing such evidence as the Department may require.\n(3) The Department may take such steps and make such inquiries as it considers necessary to determine whether the applicant is eligible for a grant.\n(4) If the Department considers that the applicant is eligible for a grant it shall:\n(a) where the application is the first to be made in connection with the applicant’s undertaking the course, notify him of the fact that the applicant is an eligible student and the amount to which the Department considers he is entitled; and\n(b) in respect of any subsequent application, notify him of the amount to which the Department considers he is entitled.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 1.9.2001, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/285",
      "affecting_title": "The Education (Grants for Disabled Postgraduate Students) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/285/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:47.008280+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."
}