(1)The Council is to promote the use by the fundable bodies of such credit and qualification framework as it may adopt.
(2)The Council must—
(a)have regard to any representations about any particular credit and qualification framework, and about credit and qualification frameworks in general, made to it by—
(i)the Scottish Ministers; or
(ii)the governing body of any fundable body; and
(b)so far as the Council considers appropriate, have regard to any representations about those matters made to it by any other person.
(3)For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), a “credit and qualification framework” is a system of evaluation relating to fundable further education and fundable higher education (as a whole) through which programmes of learning and courses of education may be compared and understood in relation to each other.