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(1)In this Act, “defence and security contract” means a contract for the supply of—
(a)military equipment;
(b)sensitive equipment;
(c)goods, services or works necessary for the development, production, maintenance or decommissioning of military equipment or sensitive equipment;
(d)logistics services relating to military equipment or sensitive equipment;
(e)goods, services or works for wholly military purposes;
(f)sensitive services or sensitive works;
(g)goods, services or works that are otherwise relevant to the operational capability, effectiveness, readiness for action, safety or security of the armed forces.
(2)In this Act, a reference to a defence and security contract includes a reference to a framework for the future award of contracts for the supply of goods, services or works of a kind described in subsection (1)(a) to (g).
(3)A contract that is a defence and security contract only by virtue of subsection (1)(g) is not to be treated as a defence and security contract for the purposes of Schedule 1 (thresholds for application of this Act).
(4)In this Act, “defence authority contract” means a defence and security contract awarded by a defence authority.
(5)A “defence authority” is a contracting authority specified in regulations made by a Minister of the Crown.
(6)A Minister of the Crown may only specify a contracting authority for the purposes of subsection (5) if the Minister considers that the authority exercises its functions wholly or mainly for the purposes of defence or national security.
(7)In this section—
“classified information” means information or other material which—
in the interests of national security, requires protection from unauthorised access, distribution, or destruction, or from other compromise, and
on the basis of those interests, has that protection under the law of any part of the United Kingdom;
“decommissioning”, in relation to equipment, includes—
withdrawal of equipment from use;
disposal or destruction of equipment;
“development”, in relation to equipment, includes—
research allowing for the development of equipment, and
development of industrial processes allowing for the production of equipment;
“equipment” includes any part, component or subassembly of equipment;
“maintenance”, in relation to equipment, includes—
repair of equipment;
modernisation of equipment;
modifications to equipment;
installing equipment, including after its transport to a new location;
testing equipment;
“military equipment” means equipment specifically designed or adapted for military purposes, including—
arms, munitions or war material, and
any of the military goods, software and technology the export or transfer of which is controlled by virtue of Schedule 2 to the Export Control Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3231), as amended from time to time;
“sensitive equipment” means equipment for use for security purposes where—
the use or supply of the equipment may involve dealing with classified information,
the supply of the equipment requires access to a physical site or to other equipment as a result of which classified information is likely to be accessible to the supplier, or
the equipment contains classified information;
“sensitive services” means services performed for security purposes where performing the services—
involves dealing with classified information, or
requires access to a physical site or to equipment as a result of which sensitive equipment or classified information is likely to be accessible to the supplier,
and includes the training of personnel to use sensitive equipment;
“sensitive works” means works undertaken for security purposes, where undertaking the works—
involves dealing with classified information, or
requires access to a physical site or to equipment as a result of which sensitive equipment or classified information is likely to be accessible to the supplier;
“supply”, in relation to equipment, other goods, services or works, includes the development of the equipment, other goods, services or works for the purposes of their supply to the contracting authority;
“wholly military purposes” include—
the transportation of military personnel or military equipment;
the training of military personnel;
the training of other personnel to use military equipment;
the construction of military facilities, including military airfields, military storage facilities or facilities for the maintenance of military equipment.
Commencement Information
I1S. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 127(2)
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