Equal opportunities

I1I219Equal opportunities: post-16 education bodies etc.

After section 26 of the 2005 Act insert—

26AEqual opportunities: post-16 education bodies etc.

1

Every post-16 education body and regional strategic body must, when making appointments to its governing body or exercising any of its other functions, do so in a manner which encourages equal opportunities and in particular the observance of the equal opportunities requirements.

2

In subsection (1), “equal opportunities” and “equal opportunity requirements” have the same meanings as in Section L2 (equal opportunities) of Part II of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998.