Section 23F Regional strategic bodies: planningF1

(1)

A regional strategic body must plan for—

(a)

how it proposes its colleges should provide fundable further education and fundable higher education; and

(b)

how it intends to exercise its functions,

and the body's colleges must, where appropriate, have regard to those plans when exercising their functions.

(2)

When making plans, a regional strategic body must have regard to the importance of ensuring that funds made available to it under section 12(1)(c) are used as economically, efficiently and effectively as possible.

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Textual amendments

F1: Ss. 23E-23O and cross-heading inserted (1.8.2014) by Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 12), ss. 10, 23(2); S.S.I. 2014/79, art. 2(2), Sch. 2