Verification of Final Decisions on Scholarships for Students with Disabilities under Extraordinary Modes: The Most Common Reasons for their Initiation

The article examines the verification of final scholarship decisions issued to students with disabilities as an exception to the principle of permanence of administrative decisions – which underlies legal certainty and guarantees the protection of acquired rights – in terms of typical (i.e. most common) reasons for such verification. To this end, the analysis covers the provisions of the Higher Education and Science Act, insofar as they regulate the premises for granting the benefit in question and allow for the verification of scholarship decisions. I also examine the provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure that govern extraordinary modes of conduct: resumption of administrative proceedings, declaration of an administrative decision’s invalidity, and revision of a decision based on special provisions. The article emphasises the lack of discretion in their selection and the inadmissibility of their simultaneous application. The discussion identifies the typical premises for applying these modes to decisions on material support for students with disabilities. Judicial practice relevant to the eponymous matter is also analysed.