{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-health-service-commissioning-board-additional-functions-regulations-2017/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-health-service-commissioning-board-additional-functions-regulations-2017/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111152928",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Commissioning Board (Additional Functions) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-health-service-commissioning-board-additional-functions-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Power to conclude and manage framework agreements",
  "text": "(1) The Board may conclude and manage framework agreements to facilitate the purchase and supply of a service, drug, medicine or other substance or product to which paragraph (2) applies.\n(2) This paragraph applies to a service, drug, medicine or other substance or product that is to be provided as part of the health service for—\n(a) the purposes of preventing, diagnosing, monitoring or treating a physical or mental illness;\n(b) the purposes of providing care to an individual; or\n(c) a purpose related to any matter mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b).\n(3) In this regulation—\n(a) “framework agreement” means an agreement between the Board and one (or more than one) economic operator (within the meaning of regulation 2 (definitions) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015), the purpose of which is to establish the terms governing contracts to be entered into during a given period, in particular with regard to price and, where appropriate, the quantity envisaged; and\n(b) “other substance or product” includes—\n(i) medical supplies within the meaning of section 260(5) of the 2006 Act;\n(ii) a medical device within the meaning of regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Medical Devices Regulations 2002; and\n(iii) a human blood component.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/102. Amendments have been made to S.I. 2015/102 but none are relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 260(5) of the 2006 Act defines “medical supplies” as including surgical, dental and optical materials and equipment."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/618, as amended. Amendments relevant to these Regulations have been made by S.I. 2008/2936."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111152928/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:07:18.016273+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."
}