{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/163",
  "legislation_title": "The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Competition Act 1998 (Vertical Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022",
  "text": "(1) The Competition Act 1998 (Vertical Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022 is amended as follows.\n(2) In article 8 (hardcore restrictions), in paragraph (7)—\n(a) after the definition of “active sales”, insert—\n““devolved Scottish authority” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Procurement Act 2023;”;\n(b) in the definition of “passive sales”, in sub-paragraph (c), for paragraphs (i) and (ii) substitute—\n“(i) the Procurement Act 2023, or\n(ii) in respect of a public authority that is a devolved Scottish authority, the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, the Concession Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016 or the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016,”;\n(c) after the definition of “passive sales”, insert—\n““public authority”has the same meaning as in section 2(2) of the Procurement Act 2023;”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 in force at 24.2.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2022/516."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/163/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:20:27.398632+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."
}