76.Paragraph 5 of schedule 2 adds South of Scotland Enterprise to several lists of persons in the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005 (the “2005 Act”). The effect is to make South of Scotland Enterprise one of the persons with which certain bodies identified in that Act must (where appropriate) consult and seek to collaborate in exercising their functions.
77.The amended sections of the 2005 Act are as follows:
Section 22, which establishes the relevant consultation and collaboration duty of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council.
Section 23B, which establishes the relevant consultation and collaboration duty of regional colleges. Regional colleges are colleges of further education designated as regional colleges by the Scottish Ministers under section 7A of the 2005 Act.
Section 23M, which establishes the relevant consultation and collaboration duty of regional strategic bodies. Extant regional strategic bodies, within the meaning of the 2005 Act, are identified in schedule 2A of that Act.