SCHEDULETRANSITIONAL AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS

PART 3PROVISIONS COMMENCED ON IP COMPLETION DAY

Procurement involving contracting authorities or utilities from other member States

6.—(1) This paragraph applies in relation to the omission, by these Regulations, of—

(a)regulation 40 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (procurement involving contracting authorities from different member States),

(b)regulation 55 of the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (procurement involving utilities from different member States).

(2) Those omissions do not imply—

(a)any prohibition of the activities authorised by the omitted regulations (which activities might, accordingly, be carried on to any extent that would have been lawful if the omitted regulations had never existed), or

(b)that any matters provided for in those regulations are necessarily to have a different effect unless so required by applicable law (including rules for resolving any conflicts between the laws of different jurisdictions).