{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-postgraduate-masters-degrees-wales-regulations-2019/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-postgraduate-masters-degrees-wales-regulations-2019/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2019/895",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master's Degrees) (Wales) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-postgraduate-masters-degrees-wales-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Welsh Ministers' decision on an application",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may take any steps and make any inquiries as they think necessary to make a decision on an application under regulation 18.\n(2) Those steps may include requiring the applicant to provide further information or documentation.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers may make a provisional decision on an application under regulation 18 (see regulation 32 for provision about payments made on the basis of a provisional decision).\n(4) A decision on an application made by the Welsh Ministers after a provisional decision has been made may—\n(a) confirm the provisional decision, or\n(b) substitute it with a different decision.\n(5) The Welsh Ministers must notify the applicant of a decision (including a provisional decision) on an application under regulation 18.\n(6) The notification must state—\n(a) whether the Welsh Ministers consider the applicant to be an eligible student,\n(b) if so, whether the eligible student qualifies for support in relation to the designated course,\n(c) if the student does qualify, the category of support for which the student qualifies and the amount payable,\n(d) in the case of a provisional decision, the fact that the decision is provisional and the consequences of that fact.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 27.5.2019, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/895/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:17.428535+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."
}