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Explanatory note

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This Order abolishes two regional strategic bodies and designates four regional colleges under the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005 (“the 2005 Act”).

Article 2 modifies schedule 2A of the 2005 Act (regional strategic bodies), removing the entries for the Regional Board for Glasgow Colleges and New College Lanarkshire for the purpose of abolishing those regional strategic bodies.

Article 3 gives the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council the power to take any action necessary to conclude any outstanding matters associated with the abolition of the Glasgow Colleges Regional Board.

Article 4 designates as regional colleges the four colleges which had been assigned to the regional strategic bodies abolished by this Order.

Articles 5, 6 and 7 make consequential amendments to schedule 2 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992, the Lanarkshire Colleges Order 2014 and the Colleges of Further Education and Regional Strategic Bodies (Membership of Boards) (Scotland) Order 2023.

Article 8 revokes the Assigned Colleges (Scotland) Order 2014.