{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-regulations-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2911",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Suppliers, contractors and services providers",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these Regulations—\n(a) a “supplier” means a person who sought, or who seeks, or would have wished, to be the person to whom a supply contract is awarded;\n(b) a “contractor” means a person who sought, or who seeks, or would have wished, to be the person to whom a works contract is awarded; and\n(c) a “services provider” means a person who sought or who seeks, or who would have wished,\n(i) to be the person to whom a services contract is awarded, or\n(ii) to participate in a design contest, and,\nin every case, is a person who is a national of and established in a relevant State.\n(2) In these Regulations a relevant State is a member State or a State listed in column 1 of Schedule 2 hereto; the agreements with the European Union by which the provisions in relation to public procurement are extended to those States are specified in column 2 to that Schedule and the statutory provision designating them as European Treaties under section 1(3) of the European Communities Act 1972 are specified in Column 3 to that Schedule.\n(3) When these Regulations apply a utility shall not discriminate between providers: and it shall not treat a person who is not a national of and established in a relevant State more favourably than one who is.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2911/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:57.250352+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."
}