Scottish Professional Football League chief Neil Doncaster says Heart of Midlothian will be given permission to break their transfer embargo.
The Edinburgh club are currently under administration relating to financial issues and are ineligible to sign new players, however, the SPFL will allow them to bring in players on the 'one in, one out' rule after experiencing a plethora of injuries and suspensions recently.
"Hearts can bring forward an application to register an individual player," Doncaster said.
"And to do so, simply need to let us see the contract and to make it clear which player they are replacing, as they did with Danny Wilson last summer."
Doncaster added: "I think there is a huge sympathy for the position that the Hearts players, Hearts supporters, and indeed the administrators, that they all find themselves in.
"It's not their fault that they are in the position that they are in at the moment, but they are in that position because of decisions that were made by others that are no longer around.
"And ultimately they are in that position and the rules are very clear about how clubs in administration are to be dealt with."
