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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/54",
  "legislation_title": "Procurement Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prototypes and development",
  "text": "The public contract concerns the production of a prototype, or supply of other novel goods or services, for the purpose of—\n(a) testing the suitability of the goods or services,\n(b) researching the viability of producing or supplying the goods or services at scale and developing them for that purpose, or\n(c) other research, experiment, study or development.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 127(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 2 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))"
    }
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  "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."
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