[F123FRegional strategic bodies: planningS
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(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.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 23E-23O and cross-heading inserted (1.8.2014) by Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 12), ss. 10, 23(2); S.S.I. 2014/79, art. 2(2), Sch. 2