# The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025, Regulation 3: Amendment of the Procurement Act 2023 (1) The Procurement Act 2023 is amended as follows. (2) In Schedule 1 (threshold amounts), in paragraph 1— (a) in sub-paragraph (1), for the words before the table substitute— “The threshold amount for a contract of a type referred to in the second column of the table below is— (a) if the contract is regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the threshold set out in the corresponding row of the third column, and (b) in any other case, the threshold set out in the corresponding row of the fourth column.”; (b) in sub-paragraph (1), in the table— (i) in the heading of the third column, at the end insert “: contract regulated by Welsh Ministers”; (ii) insert a fourth column as follows— “ Threshold amount: any other contract £5,372,609 £5,372,609 £429,809 £5,372,609 £884,720 £429,809 £5,372,609 £663,540 £5,372,609 £5,372,609 £139,688 £214,904 ”; (c) after sub-paragraph (1), insert— “(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) a contract is regulated by the Welsh Ministers if it is— (a) a contract awarded by a contracting authority that is a devolved Welsh authority, other than such a contract awarded as part of a procurement under a reserved procurement arrangement or a transferred Northern Ireland procurement arrangement, or (b) a contract which is awarded as part of a procurement under a devolved Welsh procurement arrangement.”. (3) In Schedule 9 (treaty state suppliers)— (a) before paragraph 1 insert— “Interpretation (A1) For the purposes of this Schedule a procurement is “a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers” if— (a) the contracting authority concerned is a devolved Welsh authority, unless it is a procurement under a reserved procurement arrangement or a transferred Northern Ireland procurement arrangement, or (b) it is a procurement under a devolved Welsh procurement arrangement. The Agreements”; (b) for paragraph 9 substitute— “9 In— (a) the case of a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Georgia, signed at London on 21 October 2019; (b) any other case, the Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Georgia, signed at London on 21 October 2019, as amended by Amending Agreement No. 2 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Georgia Amending the Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Georgia, signed at Tbilisi on 2 and 14 December 2022.”; (c) for paragraph 10 substitute— “10 In— (a) the case of a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Kosovo, signed at Pristina on 3 December 2019; (b) any other case, the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Kosovo, signed at Pristina on 3 December 2019, as amended by Amending Agreement No. 1 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Kosovo to amend the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Kosovo, signed at Pristina on 19 September 2023.”; (d) for paragraph 11 substitute— “11 In— (a) the case of a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ukraine, signed at London on 8 October 2020; (b) any other case, the Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ukraine, signed at London on 8 October 2020, as amended by Agreement No. 2 in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ukraine amending the Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ukraine, signed at Kyiv on 18 August 2022.”; (e) for paragraph 13 substitute— “13 In— (a) the case of a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of North Macedonia, signed at Skopje on 3 December 2020; (b) any other case, the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of North Macedonia, signed at Skopje on 3 December 2020, as amended by the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of letters between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of North Macedonia amending the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of North Macedonia, signed at Skopje on 10 December 2021.”; (f) for paragraph 17 substitute— “17 In— (a) the case of a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the Strategic Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Moldova, signed at Chisinau on 24 December 2020; (b) any other case, the Strategic Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Moldova, signed at Chisinau on 24 December 2020, as amended by Amending Agreement No. 2 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Moldova to amend the Strategic Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Moldova, signed at Chisinau on 25 May 2023.”; (g) for paragraph 20 substitute— “20 In— (a) the case of a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Albania, signed at Tirana on 5 February 2021; (b) any other case, the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Albania, signed at Tirana on 5 February 2021, as amended by the Exchange of Letters to amend the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Albania, signed at Tirana on 12 January and 12 June 2023.”. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348267181/regulation/3 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-3 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.