Commencement4

So far as is necessary for the purpose of enabling the drafting of the single source contract regulations and statutory guidance, the following provisions will come into force on 14 July 2014—

a

section 14 (regulations relating to qualifying defence contracts);

b

section 15 (pricing of contracts);

c

section 16 (pricing of contracts: supplementary);

d

section 17 (contract profit rate);

e

section 18 (contract profit rate: supplementary);

f

section 20 (allowable costs);

g

section 21 (final price adjustment);

h

section 23 (records);

i

section 24 (reports on qualifying defence contracts);

j

section 25 (reports on overheads and forward planning etc);

k

section 27 (records and reports: restrictions);

l

section 28 (qualifying sub-contracts);

m

section 29 (determining whether a contract is a qualifying sub-contract);

n

section 30 (application of Part to qualifying sub-contracts);

o

section 31 (compliance notice);

p

section 32 (penalty notice);

q

section 33 (amount of penalty);

r

section 35 (opinions and determinations);

s

section 38 (disclosure of information);

t

section 43 (interpretation etc); and

u

paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 5 (restrictions on disclosing information).