The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

PART 1 GENERAL

Citation, commencement, extent and transitional etc. provision

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.

(2) Except for regulations 2, 7, 9, 11 and 26, these Regulations come into force on IP completion day.

(3) Regulation 2 comes into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.

(4) Regulations 7, 9, 11 and 26 come into force 12 months after the day on which IP completion day falls.

(5) Regulation 23 does not extend to Scotland.

(6) The Schedule—

(a) makes provision in relation to procurements that are ongoing on IP completion day, including provision—

(i) disapplying in relation to such procurements certain amendments etc. made or to be made (whether by these Regulations or otherwise) in relation to public procurement;

(ii) modifying various references in certain regulations that apply to such procurements;

(b) makes other savings in relation to certain provisions of these Regulations.

Revocation of superseded EU exit regulations

2.  The following are revoked—

(a) the Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(1);

(b) the Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019(2).

(1)

S.I. 2019/560. Those Regulations, which are prospectively amended by the other Regulations that are also revoked by this paragraph, are not yet in force and, by virtue of this revocation, will never come into force. As modified by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c. 1), Schedule 5, paragraph 1(1), the provisions of those Regulations would have come into force on IP completion day (or in some cases after IP completion day) but are wholly superseded by the provision made by these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 2019/623, modified by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c. 1), Schedule 5, paragraph 1(1).