(1)HEFCW must establish a committee to advise them on the exercise of their functions under this Part.
(2)HEFCW may confer on the committee any other functions that they think appropriate.
(3)One member of the committee must be a person who appears to HEFCW to represent the interests of persons being provided with higher education in Wales.
(4)Of the other members of the committee—
(a)a majority must be persons who are not members of HEFCW;
(b)a majority must be persons who appear to HEFCW to have experience of, or to have shown capacity in, the provision of higher education.
(5)In appointing persons within subsection (4)(b) to the committee, HEFCW must take into account the desirability of appointing persons who are currently engaged in the provision of higher education or in carrying responsibility for its provision.
(6)Schedule 1 to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 applies in relation to the committee as it applies in relation to a committee established by HEFCW under paragraph 8 of that Schedule.