{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/further-and-higher-education-scotland-act-2005/section-23C",
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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/23C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23C",
  "heading": "Regional colleges: improvement of economic and social well-being",
  "text": "(1) A regional college is to exercise its functions with a view to improving the economic and social well-being of the locality of the regional college.\n(2) In doing so, the regional college is to have regard to—\n(a) social and economic regeneration needs in the locality; and\n(b) social cohesion and social inclusion issues in the locality.\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), “ needs ” means needs which appear to the regional college—\n(a) to exist for the time being or be likely to exist in the future; and\n(b) to be capable of being addressed (wholly or partly) by the provision of fundable further education or fundable higher education.\n(4) For the purposes of subsection (2)(b), “ issues ” means issues which appear to the regional college—\n(a) to exist for the time being or be likely to exist in the future; and\n(b) to be capable of being addressed (wholly or partly) by the provision of fundable further education or fundable higher education.",
  "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/23C",
    "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."
}