{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023-specified-international-agreements-amendment-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023-specified-international-agreements-amendment-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/97",
  "legislation_title": "The Procurement Act 2023 (Specified International Agreements) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023-specified-international-agreements-amendment-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) The amendments made by regulation 2 do not affect any procurement commenced before the relevant day if before that day—\n(a) a tender notice has been published in accordance with section 21(1) of the 2023 Act (tender notices and associated tender documents) or provided in accordance with section 40(1) to (3) of the 2023 Act (qualifying utilities dynamic market notices: no duty to publish a tender notice),\n(b) a transparency notice has been published in accordance with section 44(1) of the 2023 Act (transparency notices),\n(c) in respect of a contract to be awarded in accordance with a framework to which neither (a) nor (b) applies, a contracting authority has contacted a supplier in order to commence the award of that contract,\n(d) a below-threshold tender notice has been published in accordance with section 87(1) of the 2023 Act (regulated below-threshold contracts: notices), or\n(e) in respect of a below-threshold contract to which sub-paragraph (d) does not apply, a contracting authority has contacted a supplier in order to commence the award of that contract.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“below-threshold contract” (“contract sydd o dan y trothwy”) has the meaning given by section 5(5) of the 2023 Act;\n“contracting authority” (“awdurdod contractio”) has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the 2023 Act;\n“relevant day” (“diwrnod perthnasol”) means the day on which 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 enters into force in accordance with article 30.6 of that Agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 87 was amended by S.I. 2024/782 (W. 121)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Signed at Buckinghamshire on 24 July 2025. A digital copy of the draft agreement was published as an unnumbered Command Paper, available on https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/comprehensive-economic-and-trade-agreement-between-the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-and-india. After the agreement is in force it will be available to view in the Treaty Series Collection of Command Papers."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/97/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:56.647459+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."
}