Part 13: General Schedule 2: Exempted contracts Part 2: Subject Matter Exempted Contracts National security
Paragraph 25 exempts contracts that a contracting authority considers should not, in the interests of national security, be subject to the Act. Although the contracting authority may only be of the view that only some of the Act should not apply, where it has identified interests of national security in a contract, the whole of the contract is exemption is from all provisions of the Act.