# The Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018, Paragraph 18


(1) The Welsh Ministers may take such steps and make such inquiries as they think necessary to make a decision on an application.
(2) Those steps may include requiring the applicant to provide further information or documentation.
(3) The Welsh Ministers may make a provisional decision on an application (see paragraph 21 for provision about payments made on the basis of a provisional decision).
(4) A decision made by the Welsh Ministers after a provisional decision has been made may—
(a) confirm the provisional decision, or
(b) substitute it with a different decision.
(5) The Welsh Ministers must notify the applicant of a decision (including a provisional decision) on an application.
(6) The notification must state—
(a) whether the Welsh Ministers consider the applicant to be an eligible postgraduate student,
(b) if so, whether the eligible postgraduate student qualifies for a disabled postgraduate student's grant in relation to the academic year,
(c) if the student does qualify, the amount payable in relation to the academic year,
(d) a breakdown specifying the amounts of grant payable in respect of each type of expenditure mentioned in paragraph 20(2), and
(e) in the case of a provisional decision, the fact that the decision is provisional and the consequences of that fact.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/191/schedule/4/paragraph/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-student-support-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-4/paragraph-18
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