(1) The Minister may use an emergency procurement where —
(a) the country is seriously threatened by a disaster, war, Act of God or there is a threat to national security;
(b) the country is impacted by a disaster, war or Act of God, or national security is compromised;
(c) life or the quality of life or environment may be seriously compromised;
(d) the condition or quality of goods, equipment, building or publicly owned capital goods may seriously deteriorate unless action is urgently and necessarily taken to maintain them in their actual value or usefulness; or
(e) an investment project may be seriously delayed for want of an item of a minor value.
(2) The scope of the emergency public procurement is, as far as possible, limited to the period of the emergency, so that appropriate competitive public procurement procedures may be utilised at the conclusion of the emergency period.