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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2023/1",
  "legislation_title": "Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-act-2023",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Socially responsible procurement duty",
  "text": "(1) A contracting authority must seek to improve the economic, social, environmental and cultural well-being of its area by carrying out public procurement in a socially responsible way.\n(2) A contracting authority carries out public procurement in a socially responsible way by taking action, in accordance with the sustainable development principle, aimed at contributing to the achievement of the well-being goals listed in section 4 of the WFGA 2015 (referred to for the purposes of this Part as the “well-being goals”).\n(3) A contracting authority must set and publish objectives (“socially responsible procurement objectives”) designed to maximise its contribution to achieving the well-being goals.\n(4) Schedule 2 makes provision about revising and reviewing socially responsible procurement objectives.\n(5) In taking action aimed at contributing to the achievement of the well-being goals, a contracting authority must—\n(a) take all reasonable steps to meet its socially responsible procurement objectives when it carries out public procurement in relation to any prescribed contract;\n(b) take the particular actions referred to in section 25 when it carries out public procurement in relation to a major construction contract;\n(c) take the particular actions referred to in section 26 when it carries out public procurement in relation to an outsourcing services contract.\n(6) Despite subsection (1), a contracting authority must not include provisions in a prescribed contract that—\n(a) are not proportionate (taking into account the estimated value of the contract);\n(b) would conflict with any other enactment or rule of law relating to public procurement.\n(7) For the purposes of subsection (2), “the sustainable development principle” has the meaning given by section 5 of the WFGA 2015.\n(8) In this Part, a “prescribed contract” means—\n(a) a major construction contract (see section 25),\n(b) an outsourcing services contract (see section 26), and\n(c) any other public contract of a description prescribed by the Welsh Ministers by regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 48(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 24(1)-(7) in force at 25.3.2026 by S.I. 2025/1353, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 24(8) in force at 21.3.2025 by S.I. 2025/338, art. 2(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2023/1/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:52.654100+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."
}