Regulation 3 Amendment of the Procurement Act 2023

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

Before paragraph 1 insert—

“Interpretation

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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—

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In any case other than a procurement regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of India, signed at Buckinghamshire on 24 July 2025.”.