[A5 Duty to take steps to secure freedom of speech]
Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (2017 c 29) | Legislation

[Duties of students' unions]

[A5  Duty to take steps to secure freedom of speech]

[(1)     A students' union for students at a registered higher education provider that is eligible for financial support must take the steps that, having particular regard to the importance of freedom of speech, are reasonably practicable for it to take in order to achieve the objective in subsection (2).

(2)     That objective is securing freedom of speech within the law for—

(a)     members of the students' union,

(b)     students of the provider,

(c)     staff of the students' union,

(d)     staff and members of the provider and of its constituent institutions, and

(e)

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