Section 19 Equal opportunities: post-16 education bodies etc.I1I2

After section 26 of the 2005 Act insert—

“Equal opportunities: post-16 education bodies etc.

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(1)

Every post-16 education body and regional strategic body must, when making appointments to its governing body or exercising any of its other functions, do so in a manner which encourages equal opportunities and in particular the observance of the equal opportunities requirements.

(2)

In subsection (1), “equal opportunities” and “equal opportunity requirements” have the same meanings as in Section L2 (equal opportunities) of Part II of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998.”.