Common use of Public Services Clause in Contracts

Public Services. a) The United Kingdom and Canada affirm and recognise the right of governments, at all levels, to provide and support the provision of services that they consider public services including in areas such as public health and education, social services and housing and the collection, purification and distribution of water. b) The TCA does not prevent governments from defining and regulating the provision of these services in the public interest. The TCA will not require governments to privatise any service nor prevent governments from expanding the range of services they supply to the public. c) The TCA will not prevent governments from providing public services previously supplied by private service suppliers or from bringing back under public control services that governments had chosen to privatise. The TCA does not mean that contracting a public service to private providers makes it irreversibly part of the commercial sector.

Public Services. • a) The United Kingdom and Canada affirm and recognise the right of governments, at all levels, to provide and support the provision of services that they consider public services including in areas such as public health and education, social services and housing and the collection, purification and distribution of water. • b) The TCA does not prevent governments from defining and regulating the provision of these services in the public interest. The TCA will not require governments to privatise any service nor prevent governments from expanding the range of services they supply to the public. • c) The TCA will not prevent governments from providing public services previously supplied by private service suppliers or from bringing back under public control services that governments had chosen to privatise. The TCA does not mean that contracting a public service to private providers makes it irreversibly part of the commercial sector.