{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cleaner-road-transport-vehicles-regulations-2011/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cleaner-road-transport-vehicles-regulations-2011/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1631",
  "legislation_title": "The Cleaner Road Transport Vehicles Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cleaner-road-transport-vehicles-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Scope of the Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (6), these Regulations apply to contracts for the purchase or leasing of road transport vehicles by contracting authorities ... or operators.\n(2) These Regulations do not apply to contracts for the purchase or leasing of road transport vehicles referred to in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, as in force on IP completion day, provided that those vehicles are not subject to type approval requirements.\n(3) These Regulations do not apply to any contract unless—\n(a) the Procurement Act 2023 applies in respect of that contract; or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) that contract is to be entered into by an operator and the condition specified in paragraph (4) is satisfied.\n(4) That condition is that—\n(a) if that operator were a contracting authority, that contract would not be excluded from the application of the Procurement Act 2023 by section 3 (public contracts) of that Act (whether or not it would also be so excluded for any other reason).\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) These Regulations do not apply to any contract entered into pursuant to a procurement procedure which began before 31st July 2011.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), a procurement procedure began before 31st July 2011 if before that date and for the purposes of that procedure the contracting authority, utility or operator carrying out the procedure —\n(a) sent a contract notice to the Official Journal in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 or the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2006 in order to invite—\n(i) offers; or\n(ii) requests to be selected to tender or to negotiate;\n(b) published any form of advertisement seeking offers or expressions of interest; or\n(c) contacted any economic operator in order to seek offers or expressions of interest.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(1) omitted (24.2.2025) by virtue of The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 25(2) (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Cleaner Road Transport Vehicles (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/964), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3)(a) substituted (24.2.2025) by The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3)(b) omitted (24.2.2025) by virtue of The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3)(c) omitted (24.2.2025) by virtue of The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3)(b)-(d) substituted for reg. 3(3)(b)(c) (18.4.2016) by The Public Procurement (Amendments, Repeals and Revocations) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/275), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 36(2) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(4)(a) substituted (24.2.2025) by The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 3(4)(b) omitted (24.2.2025) by virtue of The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 3(4)(c) omitted (24.2.2025) by virtue of The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), regs. 1(2), 14(3)(c)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1631/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:50.973232+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}