{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-27",
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  "legislation": "asp/2014/12",
  "legislation_title": "Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-reform-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Exclusion of economic operators on grounds of criminal activity",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations require a contracting authority to exclude an economic operator from a regulated procurement (other than a higher value regulated procurement) if any of the following have been convicted of an offence specified in the regulations—\n(a) the economic operator,\n(b) a director, secretary, office-holder, or partner of the economic operator, or\n(c) another person having powers of representation, decision-making or control in relation to the economic operator.\n(2) Regulations under this section may make provision—\n(a) specifying evidence that is to be conclusive in determining whether or not a person has been convicted of an offence,\n(b) specifying circumstances in which a contracting authority may award a contract to an economic operator despite being otherwise prohibited from doing so under the regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 3(3) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 in force at 18.4.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/30, art. 3 (with art. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/12/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:09.509038+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."
}