Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Chapter 4: Award under frameworks Section 48: Frameworks: implied terms
Subsection (1) provides that a term is implied into all frameworks that a contracting authority can exclude a supplier from participating in a selection process for the award of a contract under a framework where the supplier is an excluded supplier or has, since the award of the framework, become an excludable supplier.
	Subsection (2) sets out some of the circumstances in which a supplier may become an excludable supplier for the purposes of subsection (1). These are where a discretionary exclusion ground did not apply before the award of the contract or applied before the award of the contract but by reference to different circumstances and where the contracting authority discovers, before the award of the contract, that the supplier was an excludable supplier.
	Subsection (3) provides that, before excluding a supplier on the basis only that an associated person is an excluded or excludable supplier, the contracting authority must give the supplier reasonable opportunity to replace the associated person.
	Subsection (4) provides that any term in the framework which attempts to restrict or override the implied term at subsection (1) is of no effect.