{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-contracts-regulations-1993/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-contracts-regulations-1993/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3228",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Services Contracts Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-contracts-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Services providers",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, a “services provider” means a person—\n(a) who sought, or who seeks, or who would have wished,\n(i) to be the person to whom a public services contract is awarded, or\n(ii) to participate in a design contest, and\n(b) who is a national of and established in a member State.\n(2) When these Regulations apply a contracting authority shall not treat a person who is not a national of and established in a member State more favourably than one who is.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/201",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Supply Contracts Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2009",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Contracts (Works, Services and Supply) (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2911",
      "affecting_title": "The Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3228/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:49.375587+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."
}