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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-52.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/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Publication on the UK e-notification service",
  "text": "(1) The notices required by regulations 49, 50, 51, 72, 75 and 78 to be submitted for publication in accordance with this regulation must—\n(a) be submitted by electronic means to the UK e-notification service for publication....\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Contracting authorities must ensure that they are able to supply proof of the dates on which notices are submitted to the UK e-notification service for publication.\n(3) Where the UK e-notification service has given the contracting authority confirmation of ... the publication of the information submitted, indicating the date of that publication, that confirmation shall constitute proof of publication.\n(4) A contracting authority may submit notices in respect of public contracts to the UK e-notification service for publication even where the authority is not required to do so by these Regulations....\n(5) In these Regulations, “the UK e-notification service” means a single web-based portal which is provided, for purposes which include the purposes of this Part, by or on behalf of the Cabinet Office.\n(6) For the purposes of these Regulations, a notice of any description is submitted to the UK e-notification service if the information comprising the notice is entered in the portal in such form or manner as the portal may elicit it and in compliance with any specific instructions that are given within the portal about how the information, or any particular element of it, is to be entered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 52(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(b)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(b)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 52(1)(b) and word omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(b)(iii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(c) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(d)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(d)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 52(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(d)(iii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 52(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(e)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(e)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 52(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(e)(iii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 52(5)(6) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(f) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Reg. 52 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(35)(a) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
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  "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."
}