{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-102",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-102.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/49",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/102",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "102",
  "heading": "Automatic Suspension of utility’s power to proceed with contract award",
  "text": "Without prejudice to the application of any relevant standstill period, where proceedings under this Part are served on a utility in relation to a contract that has not been entered into, a framework agreement that has not been concluded or a dynamic purchasing system that has not been established, the utility must not enter into the contract, conclude the framework agreement or establish the dynamic purchasing system unless—\n(a) the proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of; or\n(b) the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 102 in force at 18.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/49/regulation/102",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:30.893927+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."
}