# The Education (Student Support) ( No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009, Regulation 161: Provision of United Kingdom national insurance number


(1) The Department may make it a condition of entitlement to payment of the Master’s, etc. fee loan or any instalment of the Master’s, etc. fee loan that the eligible Master’s, etc. student must provide the Department with the student’s United Kingdom national insurance number.
(2) Where the Department has imposed a condition under paragraph (1), the Department must not make any payment of the Master’s, etc. fee loan or any instalment of the Master’s, etc. fee loan to or in respect of the eligible Master’s, etc. student before the Department is satisfied that the student has complied with that condition.
(3) Despite paragraph (2), the Department may make a payment of the Master’s, etc. fee loan to an eligible Master’s, etc. student if the Department is satisfied that owing to exceptional circumstances it would be appropriate to make such a payment without the eligible Master’s, etc. student having complied with the condition imposed under paragraph (1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/373/regulation/161 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-161
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