# The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025, Regulation 14: Amendment of the Cleaner Road Transport Vehicles Regulations 2011


(1) The Cleaner Road Transport Vehicles Regulations 2011 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—
(a) for the definitions of “concession notice”, “contract documents”, “contracting authority”, “contract notice” and “declaration of ineffectiveness”, substitute—
““associated tender documents” has the same meaning as in section 21(4) of the Procurement Act 2023;
“contract documents” means any tender notice or associated tender documents;
“contract notice” means a notice which is a contract notice within the meaning of Part 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (as applicable);
“contracting authority” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Procurement Act 2023, but as if section 2(5)(b), and the reference to paragraph (b) in section 2(5)(d)(ii), were omitted;”;
(b) after the definition of “road transport vehicle”, insert—
““supplier” means—
(a) a person or public entity or group of such persons and entities, including any temporary association of undertakings, which offers the execution of works or a work, the supply of products or the provision of services on the market;
(b) a person who—
(i) offers on the market road transport vehicles for purchase or leasing,
(ii) sought, seeks or would have wished, to be the person with whom an operator enters into a contract for the purchase or leasing of road transport vehicles, and
(iii) is a national of, and established in, the United Kingdom or Gibraltar;
“tender notice” has the same meaning as in section 21(2) of the Procurement Act 2023;”;
(c) omit the definition of “utility”;
(d) after the definition of “type approval appointment”, insert—
““work” means the outcome of a building or civil engineering works taken as a whole which is sufficient in itself to fulfil an economic or technical function.”.
(3) In regulation 3 (scope of the Regulations)—
(a) in paragraph (1), omit “, utilities”;
(b) in paragraph (3)—
(i) for sub-paragraph (a), substitute—
“(a) the Procurement Act 2023 applies in respect of that contract; or”;
(ii) omit sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) and the “or” after sub-paragraph (c);
(c) in paragraph (4)—
(i) in sub-paragraph (a), for “Public Contracts Regulations 2015 by regulation 5 (threshold amounts) of those regulations (whether or not it would also be so excluded for any other reason); and” substitute “Procurement Act 2023 by section 3 (public contracts) of that Act (whether or not it would also be so excluded for any other reason).”;
(ii) omit sub-paragraphs (b), and (c).
(4) In regulation 4 (purchase and leasing of clean and energy-efficient road transport vehicles)—
(a) in paragraph (1), omit “, utility”;
(b) in paragraph (3), omit “, utilities”;
(c) in paragraph (4), omit “, utility”;
(d) for paragraph (7), substitute—
“(7) Where a contracting authority or operator applies the option set out in paragraph (6), and employs—
(a) a competitive tendering procedure or a direct award within the meaning of Part 3 of the Procurement Act 2023, or
(b) any other procedure by means of which they advertise for, and consider offers, in relation to a proposed contract,
that contracting authority or operator must use the energy and environmental impacts as award criteria.
(8) Where a contracting authority or operator applies the option set out in paragraph (6) and operational lifetime costs are attributed to the energy and environmental impacts, that contracting authority or operator must comply with regulation 5.”.
(5) In regulation 6 (enforcement of duties)—
(a) in paragraph (1)—
(i) omit “, utility”;
(ii) for “an economic operator” substitute “a supplier”;
(b) in paragraph (2)—
(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (a), for “Part 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015” substitute “Part 9 of the Procurement Act 2023”;
(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), for “regulation 89 of those Regulations” substitute “section 100 of that Act”;
(iii) in sub-paragraph (c), in each place it occurs, for “an economic operator” substitute “a supplier”;
(c) omit paragraphs (3) and (3A);
(d) in paragraph (4)—
(i) for the words before sub-paragraph (a) substitute—
“(4) Where Part 9 of the Procurement Act 2023 has effect in relation to a supplier by virtue of paragraph (2)(b)—”;
(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “a declaration of ineffectiveness,” substitute “an order setting aside the contract or modification,”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348267181/regulation/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-14
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