This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been made to correct errors in S.S.I. 2012/88 and S.S.I. 2012/89 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those instruments.
2012 No. 108
Public Procurement

The Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of their powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19721.

Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 and come into force on the 1st May 2012.

(2)

In these Regulations—

(a)

“Public Contracts Regulations” means the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 20122; and

(b)

“Utilities Contracts Regulations” means the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 20123.

(3)

These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Amendment of the Public Contracts Regulations2.

(1)

The Public Contracts Regulations are amended as follows.

(2)

In Schedule 1 (GPA Annex 1 Contracting Authorities)—

(a)

for “Scotland, General Register Office” substitute “Scotland, National Records of Scotland”;

(b)

for “Crofters Commission” substitute “Crofting Commission”;

(c)

after the entry for “Scottish Law Commission” insert “Common Services Agency”;

(d)

for “Special Health Boards constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19784” substitute “Health Boards and Special Health Boards constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978”;

(e)

before the entry for “the Office of the Accountant of Court” insert “Health Improvement Scotland”; and

(f)

omit “Scottish Record Office”.

Amendment of the Utilities Contracts Regulations3.

(1)

The Utilities Contracts Regulations are amended as follows.

(2)

In Schedule 5 (Consequential Amendments and Revocations)—

(a)

in Part A, in the entry regarding S.S.I. 2008/376, in column 3, for “the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006”, substitute “the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006”; and

(b)

in Part B, in the entry regarding S.I. 2011/1848, in column 3, after “the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations” where it first appears, insert “2006”.

ALEX NEIL
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations correct errors regarding certain health and other bodies in Schedule 1 to the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012 and Schedule 5 to the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012.