{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2025/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2025/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/11",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The quality assurance function",
  "text": "Qualifications Scotland—\n(a) must, in respect of qualifications devised under section 2(1)(a), make such arrangements as it considers appropriate to satisfy itself as to the quality of such qualifications,\n(b) may, in respect of education and training establishments which have been approved under section 2(1)(b), make such arrangements as it considers appropriate to satisfy itself as to—\n(i) the quality of the procedures adopted by such establishments for assessing the standards of attainment of persons undertaking Qualifications Scotland qualifications (and, in particular, such persons with educational support needs),\n(ii) the quality of the internal arrangements adopted by such establishments for monitoring and controlling the effectiveness of such procedures, and\n(iii) the overall suitability of such establishments for presenting persons for Qualifications Scotland qualifications.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 66(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 1.2.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/2, reg. 2(2)(3), sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/11/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:55.294655+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."
}