{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-65.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/65",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Periodic indicative notices",
  "text": "(1) A utility may make known its intentions of a planned procurement through the publication of a periodic indicative notice.\n(2) A periodic indicative notice must contain the information set out in section I of Part A of Annex VI to the Utilities Contracts Directive , but as if both references to “dispatch of the notice” in paragraph 4 were references to the submission of the notice to the UK e-notification service for the purposes of these Regulations.\n(3) A utility wishing to publish a periodic indicative notice must—\n(a) submit it for publication in accordance with regulation 69 (publication on the UK e-notification service); or\n(b) publish it on the utility’s buyer profile in accordance with regulation 70 (publication at national level).\n(4) Where the utility intends to publish the periodic indicative notice on its buyer profile, the utility must submit for publication, in accordance with regulation 69 (publication on the UK e-notification service), a notice of the publication on its buyer profile.\n(5) The notice of publication referred to in paragraph (4) must contain the information set out in Part B of Annex VI to the Utilities Contracts Directive , but as if “date of dispatch” in paragraph 5 were a reference to the date on which the notice is submitted to the UK e-notification service for the purposes of these Regulations.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) The period covered by a periodic indicative notice must be a maximum of 12 months from the date on which the notice is sent for publication.\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 65(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(36)(a) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 65(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(36)(b)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 65(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(36)(b)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 65(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(36)(c)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 65(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(36)(c)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 65(5) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(36)(d) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 65(6) omitted (30.5.2023) by virtue of The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 5(17)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 65(7) omitted (30.5.2023) by virtue of The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 5(17)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 65(8) substituted (30.5.2023) by The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 5(17)(b) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 65(9) omitted (30.5.2023) by virtue of The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 5(17)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 65 in force at 18.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/49/regulation/65",
    "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."
}