Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property (Disposal Committee) Regulations (SRO No. 30 of 2015)

1. Citation

2. Definitions

3. Establishment of disposal committee

4. Chairperson

5. Meetings

6. Recommendation of disposal committee

7. Disposal A 72 SRO. 30 Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property 2015 (Disposal Committee) Regulations A 73 2015 Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property SRO. 30 (Disposal Committee) Regulations GRENADA STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS NO. 30 OF 2015 The Minister in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 67 of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Act No. 39 of 2014 makes the following Regulations– (Gazetted 17th September, 2015).

1. Citation. These Regulations may be cited as the PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AND DISPOSAL OF PUBLIC PROPERTY (DISPOSAL COMMITTEE) REGULATIONS, 2015.

2. Definitions. In these Regulations– “Act” means the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Act, 2014; “Board” means the Public Procurement Board established under section 6 of the Act; “chief accountable officer” means the chief executive officer of a procuring entity.

3. Establishment of disposal committee. Every procuring entity shall, for the purposes of section 56 of the Act, establish a disposal committee comprising of at least five members as follows– (a) the officer in charge of finance; (b) the head of the procurement unit, who shall be the secretary; (c) the head of the accounting department; and (d) two heads of end user departments, of whom one shall be the head of the end-user department disposing of the stores or equipment. A 74 SRO. 30 Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property 2015 (Disposal Committee) Regulations

4. Chairperson. The disposal committee shall select a chairperson from among its members.

5. Meetings. Pursuant to section 56 (2) of the Act, the disposal committee shall first meet within fourteen days of its appointment and subsequently at least once in every quarter.

6. Recommendation of disposal committee. Pursuant to section 57 (4) of the Act, the chief accountable officer shall give the disposal committee written notice as to whether he or she accepts or rejects the recommendations of the disposal committee within fourteen days of receipt of the recommendations.

7. Disposal. (1) Pursuant to section 59 of the Act, a procuring entity may dispose its unserviceable, obsolete or surplus stores and equipment to an employee of the public entity or a member of a board or committee of the public entity, where– (a) the time and cost required to dispose to any other person would be disproportionate to the value of the unserviceable, obsolete or surplus stores and equipment to be disposed; (b) the employee is in possession of the stores or equipment to be disposed and may be given the first priority to purchase the same; and (c) a ‘No Objection’ to said disposal is received from the Board. (2) Every disposal made by a procuring entity under subregulation (1) shall be reported by the chief accountable officer to the Board within fourteen days of the disposal Made by the Minister this 15th day of September, 2015. KEITH MITCHELL Minister responsible for matters relating to procurement. GRENADA PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER, AT THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, ST. GEORGE’S 17/9/2015.