{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005/section-93",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005/section-93.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/18",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-2005",
  "path": "section/93",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "93",
  "heading": "Efficiency studies",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State ... may arrange for the promotion or the carrying out by any person of studies designed to improve economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the management or operations of a qualifying person.\n(2) A person promoting or carrying out such studies at the request of the Secretary of State ... may require the qualifying person concerned—\n(a) to provide him, or a person authorised by him, with such information, and\n(b) to make available to him, or a person authorised by him, for inspection their accounts and such other documents,\nas he may reasonably require for that purpose.\n(3) In this section “qualifying person” means—\n(a) a training provider receiving financial assistance under section 14 of the Education Act 2002 from the Secretary of State, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 93(1) substituted (1.4.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), ss. 15(7)(a), 82(3); S.I. 2012/924, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 93(1) omitted (1.8.2024) by virtue of Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 18(10)(a) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(x) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 93(2) substituted (1.4.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), ss. 15(7)(b), 82(3); S.I. 2012/924, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 93(2) omitted (1.8.2024) by virtue of Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 18(10)(b) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(x) (with art. 28)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 93(3)(a) substituted (1.4.2012) by Education Act 2011 (c. 21), ss. 15(7)(c), 82(3); S.I. 2012/924, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 93(3)(b) and word omitted (1.8.2024) by virtue of Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1), s. 148(2), Sch. 4 para. 18(10)(c) (with s. 19); S.I. 2024/806, art. 2(k)(x) (with art. 28)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/18/section/93",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:15:45.290138+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."
}