{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-statutory-duties-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-statutory-duties-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/1064",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2010 (Statutory Duties) (Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-statutory-duties-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Public procurement",
  "text": "(1) Where an authority that is a contracting authority proposes to award a public contract following a competitive tendering procedure it must have due regard to whether the award criteria should include considerations relevant to its performance of the general duty.\n(2) Where an authority that is a contracting authority proposes to stipulate conditions relating to the performance of a public contract it must have due regard to whether the conditions should include considerations relevant to its performance of the general duty.\n(3) In this regulation, “award criteria” (“meini prawf”), “competitive tendering procedure” (“gweithdrefn dendro gystadleuol”), “contracting authority” (“awdurdodcontractio”), and “public contract” (“contract cyhoeddus”) have the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(1) substituted (24.2.2025) by The Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/782), regs. 1(2), 50(2)(a) (with reg. 2) (S.I. 2024/716, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2024/959, regs. 1(2), 2(7)(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(2) substituted (24.2.2025) by The Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/782), regs. 1(2), 50(2)(b) (with reg. 2) (S.I. 2024/716, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2024/959, regs. 1(2), 2(7)(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 18(3) substituted (24.2.2025) by The Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/782), regs. 1(2), 50(2)(c) (with reg. 2) (S.I. 2024/716, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2024/959, regs. 1(2), 2(7)(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 6.4.2011, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/1064/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:50:38.612815+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."
}