Further and Higher Education Act 1992

51 (1) Section 220 (extension of functions of Audit Commission) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) for “the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council, a higher education corporation” there is substituted—

“(a) a higher education funding council or the governing body of an institution within the higher education sector”,

(b) for “the governing body” there is substituted—

“(b) a further education funding council or the governing body of an institution within the further education sector, or

(c) the governing body”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there is substituted—

“(a) with respect to studies relating to a higher education funding council, the council;

(b) with respect to studies relating to the governing body of an institution within the higher education sector, the higher education funding council or the governing body”, and

(b) after those paragraphs there is inserted—

“(ba) with respect to studies relating to a further education funding council, the council;

(bb) with respect to studies relating to the governing body of an institution within the further education sector, the appropriate further education funding council or the governing body”.

(4) For subsection (3) there is substituted—

“(3) The Commission may, at the request of a higher education funding council or a further education funding council, give the council advice in connection with the discharge of the council’s functions under section 124B(2)(b) or paragraph 18(2)(b) of Schedule 7 to this Act.”

(5) In subsection (4) after “a higher education corporation” there is inserted “a further education corporation”.