{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/schedule-2/paragraph-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/54",
  "legislation_title": "Procurement Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Utilities contracts",
  "text": "A utilities contract for the supply of goods, services or works to a utility other than one acting as a centralised procurement authority, where—\n(a) the purpose of the contract is to allow the further sale or lease of those goods, services or works to a third party,\n(b) the utility does not have a special or exclusive right, within the meaning given by section 6(3), to sell or lease those goods, services or works, and\n(c) other persons may sell or lease those goods, services or works under the same conditions as the utility.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 31 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 127(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 31 in force at 24.2.2025 by S.I. 2024/716, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2024/959, regs. 1(2), 2(7)(a))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/schedule/2/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:50:42.097136+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."
}