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Point in time view as at 01/05/2024.

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Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, Section 25 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 13 August 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

25Community benefit requirements in major contractsS

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(1)This section applies where a contracting authority proposes to carry out a regulated procurement in relation to which the estimated value of the contract is equal to or greater than £4,000,000.

(2)The contracting authority must, before carrying out the procurement, consider whether to impose community benefit requirements as part of the procurement.

(3)The contracting authority must, in the contract notice relating to the procurement, include—

(a)a summary of the community benefit requirements it intends to include in the contract, or

(b)where it does not intend to include any such requirements, a statement of its reasons for not including any requirements.

(4)Where community benefit requirements are included in a contract, the contracting authority must include in the award notice a statement of the benefits it considers will be derived from those requirements.

(5)The Scottish Ministers may by order modify subsection (1) so as to substitute for the figure specified there for the time being such other figure as they consider appropriate.

Commencement Information

I1S. 25 in force at 1.6.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/30, art. 4 (with art. 5)

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