Introduction. In this paper we characterize semigroups 5 which have a semigroup Q of left quotients, where Q is an 9?-unipotent semigroup which is a band of groups. Recall that an 01-unipotent (or left inverse) semigroup S is one in which every 3?-class contains a unique idempotent. It is well-known that any 9?-unipotent semigroup 5 is a regular semigroup in which the set of idempotents is a left regular band in that efe = ef for any idempotents e, f in S. 3£-unipotent semigroups were studied by several authors, see for example [1] and [13]. Bailes [1] characterized 9?-unipotent semigroups which are bands of groups. This characterization extended the structure of inverse semigroups which are semilattices of groups. Recently, Gould studied in [7] the semigroup S which has a semigroup Q of left quotients where Q is an inverse semigroup which is a semilattice of groups.Many definitions of semigroups of quotients have been proposed and studied. For a survey, the reader may consult Weinert's paper [14]. These definitions have been motivated by corresponding definitions in ring theory. In this paper we are concerned with a concept of semigroups of left quotients adopted by Fountain and Petrich [5]. The definition proposed there is restricted to completely 0-simple semigroups of left quotients. The idea is that a completely 0-simple semigroup Q containing a subsemigroup S is a semigroup of left quotients of S if every element q in Q can be written as q = a~xb for some elements a, b in 5 with a 1 =t 0 and a" 1 the inverse of a in the group $?-class H a of Q. In this case 5 is also called a left order in Q. This definition and its dual were used in [5] to characterize semigroups 5 which have a completely 0-simple semigroup of quotients. An extension of this definition was used in [6] to obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a semigroup 5 to have a bisimple inverse w-semigroup of left quotients. This extended definition was also used in [7] to characterize semigroups S which have a semigroup Q of left quotients where Q is an inverse semigroup which is a semilattice of groups. In this paper we consider the corresponding problem for 92-unipotent semigroups which are bands of groups.After preliminary results, we obtain in Section 2, the necessary and sufficient conditions for a semigroup 5 to have a semigroup Q of left quotients where Q is an !%-unipotent semigroup which is a band of groups. This result will be used in Section 3 together with the characterization of ^-unipotent semigroups which are bands of groups in terms of spined products to obtain an alternative structure for a semigroup 5 to have a left regular band of groups as a semigroup of left quotients. Section 4 is devoted to the case where the left orders are in a class of 9?*-unipotent semigroups.We use the notation and terminology of Howie [9]. Other undefined terms can be found in Fountain's paper [4].