{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tertiary-education-and-training-funding-and-governance-scotland-act-2026/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tertiary-education-and-training-funding-and-governance-scotland-act-2026/section-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty to place conditions on funding: transparency",
  "text": "(1) The 2005 Act is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 9A (higher education institutions: good governance)—\n(a) the existing text becomes subsection (1),\n(b) after subsection (1) insert—\n“(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), principles of governance which constitute good practice in relation to higher education institutions includes, in particular, having regard to the need to operate in a way which is transparent and accountable.”.\n(3) In section 9B (further education institutions: good governance), after subsection (2) insert—\n“(3) For the purposes of this section, principles of governance which constitute good practice in relation to colleges of further education, or which are appropriate in relation to a regional strategic body, as the case may be, includes, in particular, having regard to the need to operate in a way which is transparent and accountable.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 39(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2026/5/section/5",
    "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."
}