{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-66.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/66",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Notices on the existence of a qualification system",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a utility chooses to set up a qualification system in accordance with regulation 75 (qualification systems).\n(2) The qualification system must be the subject of a notice ..., indicating the purpose of the qualification system and how to have access to the rules concerning its operation.\n(2A) Such a notice must include the information set out in Annex X to the Utilities Contracts Directive, but as if, in paragraph 10, “Article 82” were a reference to regulation 80 of these Regulations.\n(3) The utility must—\n(a) indicate the period of validity of the qualification system in the notice on the existence of the system; and\n(b) give notice of any change in the period of validity.\n(4) The notification in paragraph (3)(b) must be made by submitting to the UK e-notification service—\n(a) where the period of validity is changed without terminating the system, a notice on the existence of qualification systems; and\n(b) where the system is terminated, a contract award notice referred to in regulation 68 (contract award notices).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 66(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(37)(a) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 66(2A) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(37)(b) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 66(3)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(37)(c) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 66(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(37)(d)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 66(4)(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(37)(d)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 66 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/66",
    "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."
}