{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/213",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Hardship loans",
  "text": "(1) An eligible student who has applied for the maximum amount of loan in respect of an academic year which has been notified to him and received at least one instalment of that loan may apply to the Department for a determination that he is eligible for an additional loan on grounds of hardship, which shall be known as a “hardship loan”.\n(2) A hardship loan shall be £100 or a multiple thereof not exceeding £500.\n(3) An eligible student shall demonstrate his eligibility for a hardship loan by providing such evidence of his requirements and resources as the Department may require.\n(4) The Department shall determine the amount of hardship loan which it considers the student requires, and the student shall be eligible for a hardship loan of that amount.\n(5) An eligible student who is eligible for a hardship loan shall apply for a loan not greater than the amount referred to in paragraph (4) by completing and submitting to the Department an application in such form as it may require not later than one month after the date he receives notice of the determination under paragraph (4) and one month before the end of the academic year.\n(6) A student shall sign a declaration on the application form in the terms set out in regulation 20(3).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in operation at 20.5.2000, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/296",
      "affecting_title": "Education (Student Support) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/213/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:10.528930+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."
}