{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/309",
  "legislation_title": "The Colleges of Education (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "General powers of governing bodies",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, each governing body shall have power in its own name–\n(a) to sue and be sued;\n(b) to enter into contracts or agreements for the purposes of its functions under these Regulations;\n(c) to purchase, acquire, hold and dispose of property, heritable or moveable, for those purposes;\n(d) to accept any endowments, whether subject to special conditions or not, for the furtherance of those purposes; and\n(e) to invest any monies and funds held by it which are not immediately required to be expended for the said purposes in any investments for the time being authorised by law for the investment of trust funds, and to change any investments held by it into investments of a nature so authorised;\nand shall have all other rights, powers and privileges of a body corporate.\n(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing paragraph, a governing body shall not have power to borrow money except with the consent of the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/309/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:31:49.435131+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}