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.