{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-19",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348267181",
  "legislation_title": "The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "text": "(1) The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) omit the definition of “Defence and Security Regulations”;\n(b) after the definition of “CPV”, insert—\n““defence and security contract” has the meaning given in section 7 of the Procurement Act 2023;”.\n(3) In regulation 3(5) (subject matter and application of these regulations), omit “as that list is to be treated for the purpose of Part 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015”.\n(4) In regulation 4(1) (mixed procurement), for “the Defence and Security Regulations” substitute “would, if awarded as a separate contract, be considered a defence and security contract”.\n(5) In regulation 16(1) (specific situations: defence and security)—\n(a) in the words before sub-paragraph (a), omit “or design contests”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (a), for “Defence and Security Regulations apply”, substitute “Procurement Act 2023 applies”;\n(c) for sub-paragraph (b), substitute—\n“(b) to which that Act does not apply pursuant to section 3 of that Act.”.\n(6) In regulation 17 (mixed procurement involving defence or security aspects)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for “the Defence and Security Regulations” substitute “would be considered a defence and security contract”;\n(b) in paragraph (3), for “Defence and Security Regulations” substitute “Procurement Act 2023”;\n(c) in paragraph (5)(b), for “is covered by the Defence and Security Regulations, the procurement may be undertaken in accordance with those Regulations” substitute “would, if awarded as a separate contract, be considered a defence and security contract, the procurement may be undertaken in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023”;\n(d) in paragraph (7), for “Defence and Security Regulations” substitute “Procurement Act 2023”.\n(7) In Schedule 6 (consequential and miscellaneous amendments), omit paragraph 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2015/446, as amended by S.S.I. 2020/468; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348267181/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:53.910749+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."
}