Part 4: General Section 113: Joint working
This section gives a number of authorities the power to exercise their functions jointly where doing so would enable them to discharge their functions more efficiently or effectively. These authorities are the OfS, UKRI (but only in relation to functions exercisable by Research England), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council, the Secretary of State (to the extent that the Secretary of State is exercising functions under section 14 of the Education Act 2002), the Welsh Ministers (to the extent that they are exercising their functions under Part 2 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000), and the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland, or the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland (in relation to funding higher education, or research, in Northern Ireland but only to the extent that the Department is exercising functions in connection with such funding).
	This section forms part of the law of the United Kingdom.