# The Public Supply Contracts Regulations 1991, Regulation 22: Public service bodies


Where a contracting authority, other than one which is a contracting authority only by reason of being a GATT contracting authority, grants to a person other than a contracting authority special or exclusive rights to carry on a service for the benefit of the public, it shall impose an express duty on that person not to discriminate in seeking offers in relation to, or in awarding, a contract for the purchase or hire of goods on the grounds of nationality against a person who is a national of and established in a member State or on the grounds that the goods to be supplied under the contract originate in another member State.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2679/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-supply-contracts-regulations-1991/regulation-22
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