Authorizing legislation
The law that creates a grant programme and sets what it may fund, who is eligible, and often what the money may not be used for. A notice implements it; where the two appear to differ, the statute governs.
Part of the GrantTrove grant funding glossary — one entry for every field the catalogue stores.
Also called Authorizing statute · Enabling legislation
In detail
Notices cite the statute rather than restating it, which is why a two-page notice can carry restrictions running to many more. Eligibility that looks arbitrary in a notice usually has a statutory sentence behind it.
Authorisation and appropriation are separate acts. A programme can be authorised and unfunded, which is one reason a forecasted opportunity may never open.
Against the notice’s eligibility list
`elig_entity_types` holds the applicant classes the notice named, mapped into our vocabulary only where a mapping is honest. It is not the statute’s eligibility, and it is not widened to cover categories the statute might permit but the notice did not name. What the notice said is what the record says.
How GrantTrove stores it
- Eligibility values are the source’s own, and a value with no honest home in our vocabulary stays unmapped rather than being forced into the nearest one.
- `elig_note` keeps wording the vocabulary cannot express, so a statutory restriction quoted in a notice survives into the record in the notice’s words.
Common questions
Where do I find the statute?
The notice cites it. Every record links the notice.
Can a notice be narrower than the statute?
Yes, frequently. The notice governs what this competition will accept.
Does authorised mean funded?
No. Appropriation is a separate act, which is why some forecasted programmes never open.