Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012U.K.
8.—(1) Section 1 of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 M1 (contracts of relevant authorities) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (2)(a) for “the Official Journal of the European Union” substitute “ the Publications Office of the European Union ”.
(3) Subsection (13) is omitted.
(4) In subsection (15)—
(a)in the definition of “framework agreement” after “Regulations” insert “ (whether or not the Regulations apply) ”,
(b)the definition of “public services contract” is omitted,
(c)in the definition of “the Regulations” for “Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/5)” substitute “ Part 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/102) ”, and
(d)in the definition of “relevant authority” for “for the purposes of the Regulations” substitute “ within the meaning of the Regulations (whether or not the Regulations apply) ”.
(5) After subsection (15) insert—
“(16) For the purposes of this section references to a public services contract are to—
(a)a public service contract to which the Regulations apply (or which is treated as such a contract by the Regulations), or
(b)any contract, not being a contract falling within paragraph (a), which would have been a public services contract to which the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 would have applied (or which would have been treated by those Regulations as such a contract) if those Regulations had not been revoked”.