{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/75",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-partnership-and-public-procurement-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“PA 2023” (“DC 2023”) means the Procurement Act 2023;\n“SPPPA 2023” (“DPGChC 2023”) means the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023;\n“contracting authority” (“awdurdod contractio”) has the meaning given by section 22 of SPPPA 2023;\n“economic operator” (“gweithredwr economaidd”) has the meaning given by section 45 of SPPPA 2023;\n“excluded contract” (“contract wedi ei eithrio”) has the meaning given by regulation 3;\n“financial year” (“blwyddyn ariannol”) has the meaning given by section 46 of SPPPA 2023, except in regulation 6(2)(e)(ii);\n“framework agreement” (“cytundeb fframwaith”) has the meaning given by section 45 of SPPPA 2023;\n“notifiable below-threshold contract” (“contract hysbysadwy sydd o dan y trothwy”) has the meaning given by section 87(4) of PA 2023;\n“small and medium-sized enterprise” (“menter fach a chanolig ei maint”) has the meaning given by section 123 of PA 2023;\n“trade union” (“undeb llafur”) has the meaning given by section 1 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (and “recognised” (“cydnabyddedig”) in relation to a trade union has the meaning given by section 178(3) of that Act);\n“utilities contract” (“contract cyfleustodau”) has the meaning given by section 6 of PA 2023;\n“zero hours contract” (“contract dim oriau”) has the meaning given by section 27A(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations, the estimated value of a contract is to be determined in accordance with section 4 of PA 2023.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2023 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2023 asc 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2023 c. 54. “regulated below-threshold contract” is defined in section 84 of the PA 2023 and “below-threshold contract” is defined in section 5(5) of PA 2023."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1992 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1996 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/75/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:13.157204+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."
}