Students Awards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991

Conditions relating to applications

2.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), an award shall be subject to the conditions that—

(a) an application in respect thereof shall be made in writing and shall reach the board not later than the end of the term in which the applicant commences his course;

(b) the applicant furnishes the board with a written undertaking that, where provisional or other payments made in pursuance of the award in respect of a year exceed (for whatever reason) the grant payable in respect of that year, he will, if called upon so to do, repay the excess amount;

(c) the applicant if so required by the board will provide it from time to time with such information as it may consider necessary for the exercise of its functions under Part II of these Regulations.

(2) An application shall be treated as having reached the board as required by sub-paragraph (1)(a) where—

(a) to the knowledge of the board the application has so reached another board; or

(b) before the end of the term in which the applicant commences his course, that course had not become a specified course and the application reaches the board before the end of the first term after that course becomes a specified course; or

(c) in the case of a refugee, or the spouse or child of a refugee, the application reaches the board before the end of the term (of his course) first beginning after the date on which the refugee was recognised as a refugee or was accorded asylum; or

(d) having regard to the circumstances of the particular case, the board considers it should be so treated.

(3) If the applicant has not attained the age of eighteen years, sub-paragraph (1)(b) shall be read as if the references to the applicant were references to the applicant or his parent.