Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992

2Function of education authorities

Section 1 of the 1980 Act (duty of education authorities to secure provision of education) shall be amended as follows—

(a)in subsection (1) for the words “subsection (2)” there shall be substituted the words “subsections (2) and (2A)”; and

(b)after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(2A)The duty imposed on an education authority by subsection (1) above shall not include the provision of further education within the meaning of Part I of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992, but an education authority shall have power to provide such further education for their area.