# Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, Section 2: Local authority contracts


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—
“(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.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/3/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-social-value-act-2012/section-2
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