Part 13: General Schedule 2: Exempted contracts
The exemptions are separated in two Parts. Part 1 includes exemptions where the distinguishing characteristic is a relationship between the contracting authority and the other contracting party (i.e. the counterparty). Part 2 exemptions are those where the key characteristic is the subject-matter of the exemption. This means that the other notable difference between the exemptions in Part 1 and those in Part 2 is that the overarching "main purpose" test which applies to all subject-matter exemptions in Part 2, does not apply in Part 1, although other tests do apply to some of the exemptions in Part 1.