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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-social-value-act-2012/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/3",
  "legislation_title": "Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-social-value-act-2012",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Local authority contracts",
  "text": "In section 17 of the Local Government Act 1988 (exclusion of non-commercial considerations in the case of local and other public authority contracts), after subsection (10) insert—\n“(11) This section does not prevent a public authority to which it applies from exercising any function regulated by this section with reference to a non-commercial matter to the extent that the authority considers it necessary or expedient to do so to enable or facilitate compliance with a duty imposed on it by section 1 of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 31.1.2013 by S.I. 2012/3173, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/3/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:03.694794+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."
}