Matters not to be non-commercial matters in relation to best value authorities and parish councils
3. The matters specified in section 17(5)(e) of the 1988 Act (local and other public authority contracts: exclusion of non-commercial considerations) cease to be non-commercial matters for the purposes of section 17 of that Act in respect of the exercise of the functions regulated by that section by a best value authority(1) or by a parish council in relation to any of its proposed or subsisting public supply or works contracts where—
(a)the country or territory of origin of supplies to the contractor is the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus, or
(b)the location of the business activities or interests of a contractor is the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus.
“Best value authorities” are defined at section 1 of the Local Government Act 1999 (c. 27).