2016 No. 274

Public Procurement, England And Wales
Public Procurement, Northern Ireland

The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) to (4)

M1M2The Minister for the Cabinet Office is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to public procurement .

M3The Minister for the Cabinet Office makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, that Act.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of that Act, and it appears to the Minister for the Cabinet Office that it is expedient for certain references to provisions of EU instruments to be construed as references to those provisions as amended from time to time.C1

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
Marginal Citations
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Paragraph 1A was inserted by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 28, and was amended by the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008, Part 1 of the Schedule and by S.I. 2007/1388.