{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/782",
  "legislation_title": "The Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-wales-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2023 Act” (“Deddf 2023”) means the Procurement Act 2023;\n“contracting authority” (“awdurdod contractio”) has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the 2023 Act;\n“CPV” (“GGG”) means the Common Procurement Vocabulary as adopted by Regulation (EC) No 2195/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 on the Common Procurement Vocabulary;\n“utilities contract” (“contract cyfleustodau”) has the meaning given by section 6 of the 2023 Act.\n“utility” (“cyfleustod”) has the meaning given by section 35(4) of the 2023 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 inserted (24.2.2025) by The Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/181), regs. 1(2), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 inserted (23.6.2025) by The Procurement (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/707), regs. 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 4.7.2024, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 2195/2002, as amended by S.I. 2020/1319; this is a reference to the retained version of Regulation (EC) 2195/2002. That retained version is available online at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/2195/contents."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/782/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:00:26.253638+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."
}