{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-130",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-130.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/195",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/130",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "130",
  "heading": "Applications for support",
  "text": "(1) A person (the “applicant”) must apply for a grant under this Part in connection with each academic year of a designated postgraduate course by completing and submitting to the Department an application in such form and accompanied by such documentation as the Department may require.\n(2) The application must reach the Department as soon as is reasonably practicable.\n(3) The Department may take such steps and make such inquiries as it considers necessary to determine whether the applicant is an eligible postgraduate student, whether he qualifies for a grant and the amount of grant payable, if any.\n(4) The Department must notify the applicant—\n(a) whether he qualifies for a grant;\n(b) if he does qualify, the amount payable in respect of the academic year, if any; and\n(c) how that amount is allocated between the types of eligible expenditure.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 130 in operation at 1.5.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/195/regulation/130",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:20.443534+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."
}