{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/54",
  "legislation_title": "Procurement Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Contract details notices and publication of contracts",
  "text": "(1) A contracting authority that enters into a public contract must publish a contract details notice—\n(a) if the contract is a light touch contract, before the end of the period of 120 days beginning with the day on which the contract is entered into;\n(b) otherwise, before the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which the contract is entered into.\n(2) A “contract details notice” means a notice setting out—\n(a) that the contracting authority has entered into a contract, and\n(b) any other information specified in regulations under section 95.\n(3) A contracting authority that enters into a public contract with an estimated value of more than £5 million must publish a copy of the contract—\n(a) if the contract is a light touch contract, before the end of the period of 180 days beginning with the day on which the contract is entered into;\n(b) otherwise, before the end of the period of 90 days beginning with the day on which the contract is entered into.\n(4) Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to a contract—\n(a) awarded by a devolved Welsh authority or a transferred Northern Ireland authority, unless it is awarded under a reserved procurement arrangement, or\n(b) awarded under a devolved Welsh procurement arrangement or a transferred Northern Ireland procurement arrangement.\n(5) A Minister of the Crown may by regulations amend this section for the purpose of changing the financial threshold.\n(6) This section does not apply—\n(a) to private utilities, or\n(b) in relation to a contract awarded under section 41 by reference to paragraph 15 of Schedule 5 (direct award: user choice contracts).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 127(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 53 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/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T16:57:07.988577+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}