{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-and-higher-education-scotland-act-2005/section-23A",
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  "legislation": "asp/2005/6",
  "legislation_title": "Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-and-higher-education-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/23A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": "Regional colleges: general duty",
  "text": "(1) It is the duty of a regional college to exercise its functions with a view to securing the coherent provision of a high quality of fundable further education and fundable higher education in the locality of the regional college.\n(2) In doing so, the regional college must have regard to any fundable further education and fundable higher education provided by other post-16 education bodies in the locality of the regional college.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 23A-23D and cross-heading inserted (3.3.2014) by Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 12), ss. 5(2), 23(2); S.S.I. 2014/21, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/6/section/23A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:27.841262+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."
}