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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-53",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/446",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/53",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Publication otherwise than on the UK e-notification service",
  "text": "(1) In addition to the publication of the notices referred to in regulations 49, 50, 51, 75 and 78 on the UK e-notification service, a contracting authority may publish the information contained in such notices on the internet on a buyer profile.\n(2) A buyer profile may also include—\n(a) prior information notices which are published on it pursuant to regulation 49(3)(b) (prior information notices);\n(b) information on ongoing invitations to tender, scheduled purchases, contracts concluded, procedures cancelled; and\n(c) any useful general information, such as a contact point, a telephone and a fax number, a postal address and an e-mail address.\n(3) The notices referred to in regulations 49, 50, 51 and 78, and the information contained in them, must not be published otherwise than on the UK e-notification service before they are published on that service.\n(4) Notwithstanding paragraph (3), publication may take place otherwise than on the UK e-notification service where a contracting authority has not been notified of the publication on that service within 48 hours after the notice was submitted to that service.\n(5) A notice published otherwise than on the UK e-notification service must not contain information other than that contained in the notice submitted to that service or published on a buyer profile, but must indicate the date of submission of the notice to that service or its publication on the buyer profile.\n(6) Where a prior information notice is to be published on a buyer profile for the purposes of regulation 49(3) (prior information notices) —\n(a) the prior information notice may not be so published before the contracting authority submits to the UK e-notification service the notice referred to in regulation 49(4) (prior information notices); and\n(b) the prior information notice must indicate the date of that submission.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(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(36)(b) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(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(36)(c) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(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(36)(d)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(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(36)(d)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(36)(e)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(36)(e)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(36)(e)(iii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(6)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(36)(f)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 53(6)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(36)(f)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53 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(36)(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."
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