{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-3A.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/446",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Regulation of procurement by UK contracting authorities",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of these Regulations apply without modification where a UK contracting authority carries out a procurement under a devolved Scottish procurement arrangement and, as part of that arrangement, a contract is to be awarded following a procedure or other selection process carried out—\n(a) jointly by that authority and one or more contracting authorities, or\n(b) by a central purchasing body or equivalent which is a contracting authority.\n(2) In respect of a procurement not falling within paragraph (1) but to which paragraph (3) applies—\n(a) the provisions of these Regulations specified in column (1) of the table in schedule 7 apply in relation to that procurement, and\n(b) where there is a modification specified in column (2) of that table in respect of a provision specified in column (1), that provision applies subject to that modification.\n(3) This paragraph applies in relation to a procurement carried out by a UK contracting authority under a devolved Scottish procurement arrangement and, as part of that arrangement, a contract is to be awarded—\n(a) in accordance with a framework agreement, or\n(b) by reference to a dynamic purchasing system.\n(4) In this regulation and regulation 3B—\n“devolved Scottish procurement arrangement” has the meaning given in section 114(4) of the Procurement Act 2023,\n“UK contracting authority” means a contracting authority within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Procurement Act 2023.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 3A, 3B inserted (20.12.2025) by The Cross-Border Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/392), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/446/regulation/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:12.146487+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."
}