Part 13: General Schedule 8: Permitted contract modifications Urgency and the protection of life, etc.
Paragraph 2 provides that a modification is permitted if its purpose could be justified under the direct award of a contract in special cases (section 41). The purpose must also be for "extreme and unavoidable urgency" in accordance with paragraph 13 of Schedule 5 or "to protect life etc", following regulations made under section 42.
	Paragraph 3 clarifies that for the purposes of paragraph 2 the contract would be a public contract as defined in section 3 (public contracts).