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Revocation
    34.    These Regulations revoke the Utilities Supply and Works Contracts Regulations 1992^[26] and the Utilities Supply and Works Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 1993^[27].

Amendment of the Public Works Contracts Regulations, Public Services Contracts Regulations and the Public Supply Contracts Regulations
    35.—(1)  The Public Works Contracts Regulations 1991^[28] shall be amended—


(a)  "relevant State"in regulation 2(1), by substituting the following definition for the definition of —

    ""relevant State" has the meaning ascribed to it by regulation 4;" ;



(b)  in regulation 4(1)(b), by inserting at the end the following words—


"or a State for the time being specified in Schedule 2 to the Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996";


(c)  


"(a)  where the contracting authority is a utility within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996 and the services to be provided under it are for the purposes of carrying out an activity specified in any Part of Schedule 1 to those Regulations in which the utility is specified;" .
in regulation 6, by substituting for paragraphs (a) and (b) the following paragraph—

    (2)  The Public Services Contracts Regulations 1993^[29] shall be amended—


(a)  in regulation 2(1),


(i)  in the definition of a "public services contract", by substituting for paragraph (d) the following paragraph—


"(d)  any contract where the contracting authority is a utility within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996 and the services to be provided under it are for the purposes of carrying out an activity specified in any Part of Schedule 1 to those Regulations in which the utility is specified;"


(ii)  "relevant State"by substituting the following definition for the definition of —

    ""relevant State" has the meaning ascribed to it by regulation 4;" ;



(b)  in regulation 4(1)(b), by inserting at the end the following words—


"or a State for the time being specified in Schedule 2 to the Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996"; and


(c)  in regulation 29(4), by inserting the words "and design contest notice" after the words "contract notice" and at the end the words "on or after that date".

    (3)  The Public Supply Contracts Regulations 1995^[30] shall be amended—


(a)  "relevant State"in regulation 2(1), by substituting the following definition for the definition of —

    ""relevant State" has the meaning ascribed to it by regulation 4;" ; and



(b)  in regulation 4(1)(b), by inserting at the end the following words—


"or a State for the time being specified in Schedule 2 to the Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996";


(c)  


"(a)  where the contracting authority is a utility within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996 and the services to be provided under it are for the purposes of carrying out an activity specified in any Part of Schedule 1 to those Regulations in which the utility is specified;" .
in regulation 6, by substituting for paragraphs (a) and (b) the following paragraphs—

Bowen Wells

Michael Bates

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

20th November 1996

[26] S.I. 1992/3279. back

[27] S.I. 1993/3227. back

[28] S.I. 1991/2680: the Regulations were amended by regulation 32(1) of the Utilities Supply and Works Contracts Regulations 1992 and regulation 31 of the Public Supply Contracts Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/201). back

[29] S.I. 1993/3228: the Regulations were amended by regulation 31(2) of the Public Supply Contracts Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/201). back

[30] S.I. 1995/201. back