Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Amendment (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. No. 439 of 2009)

This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been made to correct errors in S.S.I. 2009/428 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that instrument. SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 2009 No. 439 PUBLIC PROCUREMENT The Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Amendment (Amendment) Regulations 2009 Made - - - - 10th December 2009 Laid before the Scottish Parliament 11th December 2009 Coming into force - - 19th December 2009 The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(a). Citation and commencement 1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Amendment (Amendment) Regulations 2009. (2) These Regulations come into force on 19th December 2009. Amendment of the Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 2.—(1) The Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009(b) are amended as follows. (2) In regulation 2 (amendment of the Public Contracts Regulations)— (a) in paragraph (4)(b)(i), for “second” substitute “first”; and (b) in paragraph (5)(b)(i), for “second” substitute “first”. JOHN SWINNEY A member of the Scottish Executive St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 10th December 2009 (a) 1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) (“the Scotland Act”), Schedule 8, paragraph 15 and the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1). The function conferred upon the Minister of the Crown, insofar as within devolved competence, was transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act. (b) S.S.I. 2009/428. EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations correct errors in regulation 2(4)(b)(i) and (5)(b)(i) of the Public Contracts and Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009. © Crown Copyright 2009 Corrective reprint Printed in the UK by The Stationery Office Limited under the authority and superintendence of Carol Tullo, the Queen’s Printer for Scotland. £4.00 50. 12/09. 19593. 2