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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tertiary-education-and-training-funding-and-governance-scotland-act-2026/section-2",
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  "legislation": "asp/2026/5",
  "legislation_title": "Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tertiary-education-and-training-funding-and-governance-scotland-act-2026",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General duty of the Council to secure high-quality learning",
  "text": "(1) The Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 3 (the Council: general duty), for the words from “securing” to the end substitute\n“securing—\n(a) the coherent provision (as a whole) of—\n(i) a high quality of fundable further education and fundable higher education by the post-16 education bodies, and\n(ii) a high quality of Scottish apprenticeships and work-based learning, and\n(b) the undertaking of research among the post-16 education bodies.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 39(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 1.10.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/261, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2026/5/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:48.229867+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."
}