You apply and pay your money based on existing published criteria. Criteria is changed, your application is rejected and you lose your money. Surely apart from anything else the SFA are obligated to pay back the money.
A shocking decision given clubs applied in good faith based on the criteria at the time. Unfair on all the clubs concerned but particularly for Bonnyrigg having just won the League only to have promotion denied them by a discreditable organisation that is the SFA