# Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, Section 23F: Regional strategic bodies: planning


(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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/6/section/23F (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/further-and-higher-education-scotland-act-2005/section-23F
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