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Section 70 Information about payments under public contractsI1I2

United Kingdom

(1)

A contracting authority must publish specified information about any payment of more than £30,000 made by the authority under a public contract.

(2)

The information must be published before the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the last day of the quarter in which the payment was made.

(3)

A Minister of the Crown or the Welsh Ministers may by regulations amend this section for the purpose of changing—

(a)

the financial threshold;

(b)

the time limit for publication.

(4)

This section does not apply in relation to a public contract that is—

(a)

a utilities contract awarded by a private utility,

(b)

a concession contract,

(c)

awarded by a school,

(d)

awarded by a transferred Northern Ireland authority, unless it is awarded as part of a procurement under a reserved procurement arrangement or devolved Welsh procurement arrangement, or

(e)

awarded as part of a procurement under a transferred Northern Ireland procurement arrangement.

(5)

In this section—

  • “quarter” means a period of three months ending with 31 March, 30 June, 30 September or 31 December in any year;

  • “specified information” means information specified in regulations under section 95.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

S. 70 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 127(2)

I2

S. 70 in force at 1.4.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2025/1316, reg. 2(2)(b)