1998 No. 2197
TRANSPORT
The Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) (Amendment) Regulations 1998
Made 4th September 1998
Laid before Parliament 11th September 1998
Coming into force 5th October 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (as respects England), the Secretary of State for Scotland (as respects Scotland) and the Secretary of State for Wales (as respects Wales), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 91(1) of the Transport Act 1985 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:–
1985 c. 67. For the meaning of “regulations” see section 137(1).

1 These Regulations may be cited as the Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 5th October 1998.
2 1 The Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) Regulations 1985 are amended as follows.
S.I.1985/1921; amended by S.I.1989/464 and 1994/1227.
2 In regulation 3(1)(b)–
(a) for “10,000”, in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted “£12,000”, and
(b) in paragraph (iii) for “£50,000” there shall be substituted “£70,000”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Glenda Jackson Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 26th August 1998
Sam Galbraith Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office 1st September 1998
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Jon Owen Jones Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 4th September 1998

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Service Subsidy (Tendering) Regulations 1985 so as to increase the financial threshold by reference to which certain service subsidy agreements are excluded from the tendering requirements of section 89(1) of the Transport Act 1985.