Regulation 2 Amendment of the Procurement Act 2023

Schedule 9 to the Procurement Act 2023^f1 (treaty state suppliers (specified international agreements)) is amended as follows.

Before paragraph 1 insert—

“Interpretation

B1

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”;

At the end insert—

“26

In any case other than a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Kazakhstan signed at Astana on 24 April 2024.

27

In any case other than a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Iraq signed at London on 14 January 2025.”.