Part 1Further and higher education etc.
F1Regional strategic bodies: functions
23FRegional strategic bodies: planning
(1)
A regional strategic body must plan for—
(a)
how it proposes its colleges should provide fundable further education and fundable higher education; and
(b)
how it intends to exercise its functions,
and the body's colleges must, where appropriate, have regard to those plans when exercising their functions.
(2)
When making plans, a regional strategic body must have regard to the importance of ensuring that funds made available to it under section 12(1)(c) are used as economically, efficiently and effectively as possible.