{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designation-of-regional-colleges-scotland-order-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/22",
  "legislation_title": "The Designation of Regional Colleges (Scotland) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/designation-of-regional-colleges-scotland-order-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Education\nMade 22nd January 2014\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 24th January 2014\nComing into force 3rd March 2014\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7A(1) and 34(2) of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 7A(2) of that Act, they have consulted with the boards of management of the colleges to which this Order relates, the representatives of any trade union which the colleges recognise or which otherwise appear to the Scottish Ministers to be representative of the colleges’ staff, the colleges’ students’ associations, the local authorities for the areas in which the colleges are situated, the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council and any other person appearing to them as likely to be affected by the Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2005 asp 6. Section 7A was inserted by section 5 of the Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 12)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/22/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:36:29.048564+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."
}