{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/schedule-6/paragraph-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/schedule-6/paragraph-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/54",
  "legislation_title": "Procurement Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/37",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Misconduct in relation to tax",
  "text": "(1) A mandatory exclusion ground applies to a supplier if a penalty has been payable by the supplier or a connected person under—\n(a) Schedule 24 to the Finance Act 2007 (errors in tax documentation), or\n(b) Schedule 41 to the Finance Act 2008 (failure to notify and certain VAT and excise wrongdoing),\nbut only where the conduct giving rise to that penalty was deliberate.\n(2) Such a penalty is not to be treated as having been payable unless—\n(a) if the penalty has been assessed, the time for any appeal or further appeal relating to the penalty has expired or, if later, any appeal or final appeal relating to it has been finally determined, or\n(b) a contract has been made between HMRC and the supplier or connected person, under which HMRC undertook not to assess the penalty or (if it was assessed) not to take proceedings to recover it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 applied (24.2.2025) by S.I. 2013/1582, reg. 6(2), Sch. 2 Pt. 1 (as amended by The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), regs. 1(2), 17 (with reg. 33))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 37 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 127(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 37 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/6/paragraph/37",
    "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."
}